This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (Dec. 18)

Once in a year, it is not thought amiss

To visit our neighbors and sing out like this:

We wish you a Merry Christmas

We wish you a Merry Chanukah

We wish you a Merry Holiday

And a Happy New Year!

More Music And Snow Sports

Here’s another holiday treat. The Colorado Snowsports Museum has compiled a YouTube music collection with Colorado as a theme. Many of those videos are involved with skiing and snow sports. Here’s a timely tune from none other than the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.  As you will see, the whole playlist of additional tunes of Colorado and snow country music can be found in the right column when you play this video. Enjoy!

This Week

Skiing Weatherman Herb Stevens nailed the Nor’easter that blasted up the east coast this week.  Now, he’s looking at another honker of a storm for Christmas Day in the east. See his predictions for all regions.  Bottom Line: Game on snow-wise.

We hear once again from David Chambers, the Traveling Australian, who visits Revelstoke, Silver Star and little towns in  the Kootenay region of British Columbia, meeting some extraordinary characters along the way.  Take a visit with him. 

We reveal the location of last week’s Mystery Glimpse photo along with a history written by the historian of the Ski Museum of Maine. And there’s a new picture puzzle to figure out. Where did all those Santas come from?

Cross Country editor Roger Lohr traces the major modern milestones of XC skiing. The point is that there has been a huge evolution of XC skis, equipment, and infrastructure in just the last 50 years from wood to high tech. Roger’s article is the latest in our Make More Tracks series, focusing on alternative winter sports that our readers may find attractive in this unusual season.

Our Question For You asks what’s on your list for Santa. It will be interesting to see what our readers would like to see under their trees this year.

Ski world notable and SeniorsSkiing.com Advisory Board member Seth Masia adds more tips for taking lessons in COVID times. He’s building on last week’s article by Keller Minton on what makes sense in taking a lesson.

Correspondent Pat McCloskey brings us a view of carving the “modern” turn, or “arc” as some ski coaches call it. Watch the sl0w-motion video of instructor Paul Lorenz as he demos the carve on GS and slalom skis.

We’ll be taking a couple of weeks off our publishing schedule to celebrate the holidays. See you next year!

And thanks for reading SeniorsSkiing.com. Tell your friends, and, remember, there are more of us every day, and we aren’t going away.