Ski Bum Advice

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Ski Bum Advice: Things I Did Not Do This Season 

I don’t like setting expectations, mainly because I end up being disappointed. Maybe I should try setting lower standards, and then fail to meet them.   ...
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Ski Bum Advice: What the !@#$ Did I Just See?

Back before I lost what grip I had on reality and joined the ranks of corporate America, I had the privilege of living and working ...
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Ski Bum Advice: Stuff I’m Not Doing This Spring

The days are getting longer, the skies have parted, and the sun has returned to grace us poor, pale folks of the Pacific Northwest who ...
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Photo by Gary Peterson.

Brad Northrup: Ski Bum Advice – The Mountain Translator

Like most folks out there, I am locked up in a cubicle Monday through Friday in order to pay the bills, put food on the ...
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Photo of chairlift by Aaron Theisen.

Ski Bum Advice: Winter, Oh, How I Have Missed You

I have stashed the golf clubs in the dusty nether-regions of the garage, shoved my wet boardshorts in a far back drawer, and have begun ...
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Ski Trends I Hope Never Change

They say change is inevitable. I say poopy to that—at least to the idea that all things have to change. Now I’m sure that some ...
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Photo by Aaron Theisen.

Skiing Powder

Does this sound familiar? It snowed all week, with storm after storm pounding the local mountains and dumping well over a foot of fresh snow. ...
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Old-School Ski Tricks

  As an old-school ski racer who grew up with skinny skis, tight pants, and bad hair, I admit I am at a loss when ...
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10 Signs You Have Too Many Skis

I should probably preface this column by sharing a simple fact: I hate getting rid of skis. Yeah, sure, us skiing folk might make light ...
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