Skiing back issues from March 1995:
Park it here: ski areas have found a new way to please the ride-and-slide crowd.(snowboarding)
Mar 01, 1995; ... There's something hot at many of North America's ski areas. But in most cases, skiers aren't even allowed to use it. It's called a snowboard park, and it's reshaping the ski-area landscape - literally.From Nashoba Valley, Massachusetts, to Sierra-at-Tahoe, California, from Sun ...
On wimping out: learning to live with the turns not taken.(skiing)
Mar 01, 1995; ... For three years now, I've brooded about a single turn. A left turn, to be exact. A turn I never made. It was mid April 1992, and I was preparing to ski into an extraordinary chute off the summit of a flat-topped mountain overlooking the remote village of Isafjordhur, in the northwest comer ...
Animal instincts: knowing the right moves can save your life when critters stray onto roads.(automobile driving)
Mar 01, 1995; ... Each day more than a million animals are hit by cars or trucks, according to the American Automobile Association (AAA). Skiers who drive have particular reason to be concerned, since ski areas are located in mountainous and forested areas, where wild creatures, primarily deer, are plentiful ....
Signs of trouble: on-mountain advertising degrades the ski experience - and it's got to go.
Mar 01, 1995; ... Wanna know what really gouges my P-tex? Rusts my edges? Scrapes my wax? It's billboards on ski slopes.Ski-area billboards peddle cars and beer above and below on-mountain trail maps. They hawk local radio stations on lift towers. They sell soda on the backs of chairlifts. And when ...
Saving your knees: ACL awareness training can help end the knee-injury epidemic.(anterior cruciate ligament injuries)
Mar 01, 1995; ... I: finding a solutionThe first real hope of reducing the epidemic 20,000 ACL knee injuries sustained yearly in skiing is at hand. A research team has designed a training program that, in a recent study, reduced the incidence of ACL sprains among professional skiers by more than ...
Misunderstood monsters.(sharks)
Mar 01, 1995; ... One day, a few years after "Jaws" was published, I was diving in the Bahamas, examining a pile of old cannons on a reef. A friend who had discovered them wanted to know if I thought they were merely a "dump" - weight jettisoned by the crew of a ship that had run aground on the reef - of if ...
What is polluting our beaches?
Mar 01, 1995; ... When you stand on the gently sloping hillside over-looking Fleming Beach on the rugged western shore of Maui, it's hard to imagine there could be anything wrong with any beach anywhere in the United States.The powdery, white sand is clean and pristine. The blue-green Hawaiian ...
The deliberate extremist.(daredevil skier Pierre Tardivel)
Mar 01, 1995; ... We rise at three, linger over a quiet breakfast, and depart the refuge at four, our headlamps shining the way. A few minutes later we separate, Pierre Tardivel skiing off down the Vallee Blanche, while photographer Chris Noble, Chris's assistant, Shannon Walsh, and I switch to crampons and ...
Seize the trees.(skiing wooded terrain)
Mar 01, 1995; ... When there are more people than moguls on my favorite bump runs, when all the magnificently manicured interstates become gridlocked, when the only powder lines are leftovers - there's one place I know will be mine: the trees.* Of course, ducking into the trees is the obvious move ...
At play in the snowfields of Patagonia.(skiing Argentina)
Mar 01, 1995; ... Having discovered the joys of skiing in South America seven years ago, I now jump at any chance to ski the Andes. During past North American summers, I had been up to my waist in powder in Las Lenas, had whole mountainsides to myself at Valle Nevado, and dropped into smooth slopes of corn ...
Destination: South America.(ski guide to Argentina, Chile)
Mar 01, 1995 ... Getting ThereThere are two gateways to skiing in South America: Buenos Aires in Argentina and Santiago in Chile. The two most common departure cities are New York and Miami; flights leave in the evening and land in South America at sunrise. Both Buenos Aires and Santiago are ...
Upstem in powder.(skiing technique)
Mar 01, 1995; ... 1. TacticsForTamingThe GreenUngroomed snow creates problems for most novice skiers. With snow up around your ankles, the skis seem harder to turn, wanting to go straight. For decades inexperienced skiers have tried to solve this problem by sitting ...
Blown away.(windsurfing and other outdoor activities at Hood River, Oregon)
Mar 01, 1995; ... Hood River, Oregon, is the only ski town on earth where wind calls the shots. And at sunset on a summer afternoon, as the snowy cone of Mount Hood towers over the horizon, it seems as if every card-carrying skier on earth has chased the breeze to one place. * On a highway shoulder along the ...
Destination Hood River.(recreation guide to Oregon resort)
Mar 01, 1995 ... Phones and FiguresAll phones numbers are area code 503, unless otherwise indicated) Population: 4,632 Incorporated: 1894 Chamber of commerce: 800-366-3530 Newspaper: Hood River News Microbrew: Full Sail Ale Average temperature: 67 degrees (July), 34 degrees (January) ...