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“Let’s hit the slopes!” This is what everyone says when going skiing. Especially in my situation. It was my seventh grade year, I had never been skiing before, but I was ready to go. I had on my snowsuit, three different hoodies, a hat, a scarf, gloves, and extra fuzzy socks. Could I have been more prepared? In my head I couldn’t have, but hitting the slopes would tell me something completely different. My best friend at the time and I made our way into our bulky ski gear. We talked each other…

sports you need to try (-- removed HTML --) Most winter sports seem kind of nuts. You can just picture the wintertime boredom that persuaded people to strap planks of wood to their feet, or slide down ice face first. Although typical sports like skiing and luge are now professional sports, there are far more crazy winter activities out there. Here are a few of the winter sports from around the world you need to try. Yukigassen (-- removed HTML --) Who doesn’t love a good snowball fight?…

3, 1986, in San Diego, Calif., White grew up in nearby Carlsbad. He survived a heart defect that required two operations when he was an infant. Despite his early health problems, he was soon skateboarding, surfing, skiing, and playing soccer (association football). He took up snowboarding at age six and the next year won his first competition. He became a phenomenon on the amateur circuit, claiming five national titles, and turned professional at 13. After making his…

GORE-TEX Experience More Table of Contents Break Points: Cycle Meets Snow with SnoGo Story: Mattie Schuler Featured Photography: SnoGo Home > Break Points: Cycle Meets Snow with SnoGo 07 Cycle Meets Snow: Hitting the Slopes in a Brand New Way CLICK TO SHARE Man on ski slope with snow bikeIt’s a blue bird day—sun shining, no clouds in sight—and the snow beneath your blades is like satin. You got first chair and are ready to feel the wind up against your jacket. But there’s no need to…

“Skeleton racing involves plummeting head-first down a steep and treacherous ice track on a tiny sled. It is considered the world’s first sliding sport” (“Skeleton”). The current definition, which is widely accepted, brings into question the validity of some olympic events being called olympic sports. The definition also needs to change due to the nature of language, which is that it changes. The current definition of a sport needs to be changed to better capture the essence of what a sport is.…

Utilizing contrast and contradiction, the author writes about nothing that could be called pleasurable and so little about skiing to defy what the readers will be expecting. Seeing the article, SkiMag followers and fans of travel writing are looking forward to reading an exciting story about skiing in an extravagant place. But Neville does the unexpected and compares the experience of skiing, an exhilarating activity, with a trip to North Korea, a country under a dictatorship of one man, to…

The chilly breeze grew stronger into gusts as I gradually made my way to the top of Copper Mountain on a midsummer day. It was afternoon when I finally reached the top of the humongous mountain. I hopped off the lift that had brought me all this way and I snatched my bike off the next chair coming by, scared I would miss it. My twin sister Abby, my older brother Dylan, my dad, and my Uncle Tim all came along on this adventure on the monstrous mountain. We hopped on our bikes and headed down the…

Have you ever tried snowboarding? If you have,then great,but if you haven’t,these are some reasons why you should AT LEAST try it. Why not?The chance of getting hurt is 2-4/1000 each day.And, some of the most skilled people of the world (at anything) had to take the risk of actually trying it a first time and pushing through with it. Finally,don’t try once and quit.You have to push to get better at anything,including snowboarding. Why should you try?Snowboarding is a awesome,cool,fun sport.It…

In January of last year I went on a trip to Colorado on a "college visit" with a friend and my father to University of Colorado Boulder. We left Wednesday night, skipping school both Thursday and Friday. We did go to the college and took a tour of the campus on Thursday which I greatly enjoyed, it is beautiful out there and at elevation there is very little humidity. The true intention of the trip, as important as the college visit was, was to go to Breckenridge Resort and spend the weekend…

Snowboarding is an olympic and paralympic sport that is related to skateboarding, sledding, surfing, and skiing. This sport involves a snow covered slope and the snowboarder descending down the slope standing on the attached snowboard. Whether you are good or bad at snowboarding, it is still a very active sport and it’s also fun for those people that enjoy the snow. There are many benefits to snowboarding. It increases your flexibility by requiring you to change and pace in different directions.…