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This Week in SeniorsSkiing.com (Nov. 11)

This Week in SeniorsSkiing.com (Nov. 11)

Keep up the snow dance. The season has started at Arapahoe Basin with a few open trails. A dump is expected in Colorado next week.  There’ a terrific interview with Jackson Hogen, publisher of realskiers.com. He shares views about the impact of corporate vs. family-owned ski areas, growing old on skis, and the importance of older skiers to the sport.[Read More…]

by November 10, 2016 0 comments Features, Home Top Box 1
Jackson Hogan of realskiers.com

Snow Sports Leaders: Jackson Hogen, Publisher of realskiers.com

Jackson Hogen’s career encompasses many roles in the world of skiing: from freestyle competitor, instructor and extreme camp coach to ski designer, product manager, and marketing director. He has been testing skis and boots for decades. His list of best 2016-17 skis for older skiers is available free to SeniorsSkiing.com subscribers. Your realskier.com bio indicates you’re a skiing everyman. You’ve[Read More…]

by November 9, 2016 10 comments Features, Snow Sports Leaders
Challenging the famous "Corrugated Spines" of Alaska's Tsirku Glacier.  From North Face's Big Mountain Adventure video series.

This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (Nov. 4)

Exotic, Remote Places To Ski, 50 Years Of Ski Racing, 85-Year-Old Skier On A Mission And More. This has been an extraordinary week in the world of sports.  Ski resorts are opening up all over the country, even in New England! Snow is here. Check Short Swings! for more industry news. And, amazingly and gloriously, the Chicago Cubs managed to[Read More…]

by November 3, 2016 0 comments Features
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This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (Oct. 28)

Congratulating The Ski Diva, Warren Miller’s Latest, Exercise Tips Part 1, Retail Drop Ins. What a flurry of activity we’ve had around SeniorsSkiing.com since the publication of our ski recommendations for senior skiers!  We welcome the many new subscribers who found their way to our online magazine through Facebook and Huffington post.  We hope you like our editorial content, now[Read More…]

by October 27, 2016 0 comments Features
Short Swings!

Short Swings!

NATIONAL SeniorsSkiing.com salutes The Ski Diva for winning the prestigious Harold S. Hirsch Award for Best Ski Blog from the North American Snowsports Journalists Association. Wendy Clinch, a refugee from the advertising business, started the Ski Diva, a women’s ski blog, in 2006. Since then, she has written on a wide-range for topics for women snowsport enthusiasts and has attracted[Read More…]

by October 27, 2016 0 comments Features
Pat McCloskey's article on the Modern Ski Turn explores the power of what you see Ted Ligety doing.
Credit: NY Times

This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (Oct. 21)

New Features: Industry News, Ski Recommendations For Seniors, Plus Advice On Carving, And An Often-Neglected Miracle Drug. As the season ramps up in the West (A-Basin opens today!) and snow forecasts start to appear in Vermont, SeniorsSkiing.com is moving into snow season mode. There are some important new features we are launching this week. Short Swings! is our brand new round-up[Read More…]

by October 20, 2016 0 comments Features
Short Swings!

Short Swings!

A Weekly Round-Up Of Industry News. CALIFORNIA 11th annual Alpenglow Sports Winter Film Series will be held at Squaw Valley’s Olympic Village Lodge, November 17. Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows promoted Tom Feiten to VP, Marketing and Business Development, overseeing marketing and sales. Before joining the resort in 2011, he helped Teton Gravity Research revitalize the Teton Gravity Research annual film[Read More…]

by October 20, 2016 0 comments Features
Key moment in Ligety's carved turn, engaging the uphill ski earlier. Flexing the ankle puts pressure on the edge.
Credit: NY Times

Pre-Season Advice: Carving The Modern Ski Turn For Seniors

A Ski Instructor Reviews How To Turn On Shaped Skis. [Editor Note: Our Spring Survey 2016 revealed an interesting statistic. About 30 percent of seniors take one or more lessons during a ski season. For those of us who are still skidding around turns and wondering how other skiers make those clear, sharp, carved ski tracks, PSIA ski instructor Pat[Read More…]

by October 19, 2016 1 comment Features
Killington usually vies for being the first in the East.  When you read this, we think lifts will be spinning in the Northwest.
Credit: NOAA/NWS, Thanks to Snowbrains.com

This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (Oct. 14)

The Benefits Of Solitude, Grandkid Book Recommendation, Boot Revival. This week we are anticipating a big, big snow fall in the Pacific Northwest coming from a huge cyclone off the coast.  And thanks to Snowbrains.com, a really terrific snow sport site, we learn where the snow will accumulate enough for resorts to open first.  Here’s the official view from NOAA/NWS.  Just a[Read More…]

by October 13, 2016 1 comment Features
XCSkiResorts.com publisher Roger Lohr likes to go alone, sometimes on the spur of the moment. Anti-social? Expedient?
Credit: Roger Lohr

Flying Solo

Making The Case For Going Alone. Ski areas don’t really want to hear about people snowboarding by themselves because they like the multiplier effect of groups and families. At the risk of being called a loner, anti-social, or a follower of the British punk band the Anti-NoWhere League, I can surely admit that I like going SNOWBOARDING BY MYSELF. Self centered?[Read More…]

by October 12, 2016 4 comments Features
bunny slopes. Wonderful Book For Grandkids Who Ski.

bunny slopes. Wonderful Book For Grandkids Who Ski.

A Day on Skis with a Bunny Rabbit. When my daughters were young, I read them to sleep with Goodnight Moon, Animal Cafe, and other terrific children’s books. The words and pictures of these simple stories always delighted, regardless of how many times they were read. Now that I’m grandfather to four, I actively look for new children’s classics. It’s[Read More…]

by October 11, 2016 0 comments Features
This Week In SeniorSkiing.com (Oct. 7)

This Week In SeniorSkiing.com (Oct. 7)

More Layering Advice, Finding Ski Buddies, And A New X-C Leader Emerges. Just to get the mind ready, here’s a micro video clip of our friend’s son, Chris Thomas, doing the powder at Steamboat last spring. Hang on folks we are almost there. Now is the time of the year to be browsing through the ski magazines and websites for new gear[Read More…]

by October 6, 2016 0 comments Features
Five Ideas For Finding Ski Buddies

Five Ideas For Finding Ski Buddies

Here Are Five Starter Ideas.  Do You Have Any More? SeniorsSkiing.com’s Spring 2016 Survey revealed a pretty interesting statistic. Half our respondents—49.33% to be precise—were interested in meeting other seniors to ski with.  We know that many people drop out of snow sports because their spouse either isn’t able or isn’t interested in winter sports.  An alternative to quitting is[Read More…]

by October 4, 2016 1 comment Features
New CCSAA Exec Director Reese Brown brings energy.
Credit: Roger Kohl

Snow Sports Leaders: Reese Brown, X-C Ski Area Association Exec

New Ideas For X-C Skiing With New Director. Reese Brown is taking over the reins at the Cross Country Ski Areas Association (CCSAA) as Executive Director after a long run by former leader, Chris Frado. CCSAA is a nonprofit organization founded in 1977 with about 350 ski area members in North America and is dedicated to promoting growth and improving[Read More…]

by October 4, 2016 0 comments Snow Sports Leaders
Get ready for the new season with some mind candy from Warren Miller.

This Week In SeniorsSkiing.Com (Sept 30)

Senior Season Pass Discount Deals, BC Big Boy Resort, Tandem Warren Miller Movie And Book Reviews. The snow season continues to emerge from the fall weather.  There’s snow at high elevations through the Northwest and, in the East, there is definitely a snap in the air and the leaves are turning. This week in SeniorsSkiing.com we welcome Michael Warner’s new[Read More…]

by September 30, 2016 0 comments Features
Senior Season Pass Deals From SeniorSkiDeals.Com

Senior Season Pass Deals From SeniorSkiDeals.Com

New Site Pinpoints Lift Discount Deals For Seniors. [Editor Note:  Last season, we published an article about Michael Warner’s website that summarized lift ticket deals for senior skiers at Tahoe area resorts.  This season, Michael is going national, publishing a new website—seniorsskideals.com— that identifies season pass and lift ticket discounts for seniors at top resorts. Michael uses data from Zrankings.com[Read More…]

by September 29, 2016 0 comments Features
The beauty of the outdoors and the freedom of skiing are Warren Miller's trademarks.

Warren Miller’s ‘Here, There And Everywhere’ Ushers In 2016-17 Season

He’s 91. This Is His 67th Production. Warren Miller is back. The patriarch of outdoor adventure films is 91 and at the beginning of the trailer for the 2016-17 film Here, There And Everywhere, he asks, “What do people really get out of skiing?” His answer? “It satisfies our innermost urges…for freedom.” He mentions being in square boxes, “This building…is[Read More…]

by September 23, 2016 0 comments Features, Home Top Box 2
Study up if you're buying new gear this year.  There is a lot of nuanced knowledge to learn.
Credit: SkiSaltLakeCity

This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (Sept. 23)

La Nina No Way, Goggle News, Sailing On Snow, Advice On Buying Gear. EXTRA! LATE BREAKING NEWS:  SeniorsSkiing.com Subscribers Can Get A Discount at BEWI’s Ski And Snowsport Expos. Click The Ad At The Top Of The Page. We’ve been watching the news from various country ski resorts about the first snow falls of the year.  We’ve heard Tahoe has been[Read More…]

by September 21, 2016 0 comments Features
New NOAA Winter Long Range Forecast: No La Nina

New NOAA Winter Long Range Forecast: No La Nina

NOAA National Weather Service Says Not So Fast, Winter. The weather outlook for this winter shifted dramatically over the summer when the sea water temperatures of the Western Pacific cooled more slowly than predicted.  To review, El Nino is a “hot” sea water temp, La Nina is “cool”.  Both play significant roles in global weather because sea water temps determine which way[Read More…]

by September 20, 2016 0 comments Features
Sail Skiing: Don’t Do This On Saturday Afternoon

Sail Skiing: Don’t Do This On Saturday Afternoon

Yet Another Attempt To Hybridize Skiing And Another Sport.  Why Is This Happening? We’ve reported on individuals who think it’s a good idea to take a kayak down a ski hill. Click here for our story with a video by Warren Miller, no less. And then there was the guy who thought he’d surf on big rollers in Hawaii on[Read More…]

by September 19, 2016 0 comments Features
This Week in SeniorsSkiing (Sept. 16)

This Week in SeniorsSkiing (Sept. 16)

First Snow! New Cat Skiing Operation. Long Poles. Plus-Sized Ski Clothing. I’m writing this from Utah where, a few days ago, Snowbird received it’s first snowfall. It’s an exciting precursor to the coming season. On Saturday, I’ll attend First Chair Festival, a ski-oriented street and film festival. Also from this weird and beautiful state is news of Whisper Ridge, a 50,000[Read More…]

by September 15, 2016 0 comments Features
This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (Sept. 9)

This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (Sept. 9)

Snow Sports Leader Interview, Awesome Mountain Biking By Senior Crew in WVA, Kudos To The Ski Diva. Labor Day is at last behind us.  We’re getting closer to snow season and, guess what, we’ve heard that there are folks making runs in Montana on scratchy and almost covered trails.  So it begins, the season of 2016-17.  There are so many[Read More…]

by September 8, 2016 0 comments Features
"Bernie Weichsel speaks at the Jerry Awards at the Ishpeming 100 Film Festival during Skiing History Week in Steamboat Springs."

Snow Sports Leaders: Bernie Weichsel, BEWI Ski And Snowboard Expos

Bernie Weichsel is the country’s major producer of ski shows and expos. He founded BEWI Productions, Inc. in 1979 and has successfully marketed snow sports to audiences in the US and internationally. He assists with fundraising for the U.S. Ski Team and other non-profit organizations. Bernie also is a valued member of the SeniorsSkiing.com Advisory Council. How did you start[Read More…]

by September 8, 2016 15 comments Snow Sports Leaders
Not easy these WV rock pots.  But that's why correspondent Pat McCloskey and his senior cyclist pals took them on.
Credit: Pat McCloskey

Cycling Series: Black Diamond Mountain Biking In WV

Correspondent Pat McCloskey Rides With Cycling Pro Over Technical Trails. What in the world is an ex-World Cup mountain bike racer doing leading a bunch of old guys around the rock strewn trails of West Virginia?  Well, that is exactly what happened when Sue Haywood graciously agreed to lead our group of aging warriors around some of the most challenging trails[Read More…]

by September 7, 2016 0 comments Features
All Hail The Ski Diva: 10th Year Anniversary

All Hail The Ski Diva: 10th Year Anniversary

Online Community For Women Skiers Reaches A Rare Milestone. It’s not often you see a website/blog/forum on the internet last for 10 years.  Truth be told, internet presence can be pretty ephemeral. Websites often rocket into cyber space, do an orbit or two and then fade into the ozone.  Think AOL.com, AltaVista or MySpace. A notable exception is The Ski Diva,[Read More…]

by September 7, 2016 0 comments Features