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Planning the Big Ski Trip? Some Lessons learned the Hard Way

If planning your big ski trip sounds like a daunting task and you're already overwhelmed at the mere thought of starting to plan your winter vacation, John Sherwood - writer and columnist at DC Ski, can provide you with useful information and help you answer some of the questions you might have: What about the snow conditions? What about the vertical and the lifts? Transportation and lodging? When should we be traveling?

To read the full article go to:
http://www.dcski.com/articles/view_article.php?article_id=830&mode=headlines

Twin-tips? Wrong picture?

It's a been a while since the last post and I hope you enjoyed the summer months. Believe it or not today is September 1...and it is time to gear up and get ready for the next winter season. While doing some research on the latest snow trends, I found out the newest "cool" skis to have are twin-tips. When I first heard about them, I tried to visualize how they would look and immediately asked myself why one would need twin-tips (at front side) of his/her skis. Well, if you made the same assumption...you're off-track. Twin-tips means that skis have tips on both ends of the skis.
If you're puzzled, believe me, you're not the only one...because youngsters use them to ski downhill...but backwards! 

Something is certainly wrong in this picture as I remember being taught to always look downhill ..not uphill while skiing.