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Article: Report finds snow sports in good shape
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- March 26, 2006
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When asked to identify ourselves among other practitioners of a
winter sport, most of us used to be content with a designation of
either skier or snowboarder. There are a few among us who cross over
and do both, but most of us have made a choice.
Going back about a dozen years, there was a perceived and
erroneous gulf between those who rode down the mountain on two skis
or one snowboard. In the early 1990s, that chasm between the two
types of ride was a wide one indeed.
Expectations of unpleasant behavior on the part of the rival group
were common, and often based on nothing more scientific than style.
Of course, more than a few of the rival group lived down to
expectations occasionally, ...