The first day out in the Midwest is an odd ritual. Despite your best expectation-lowering efforts, there's always that hope that, somehow, someway, the snowmaking crew at your hill of choice piled it up deep for you. If your first turns were anything like ours at Welch Village this week, it wasn't exactly like that, …
Month: November 2018
Linking Turns: Your knees, a flight deal and an airline guide
Midwest Ski Journal likes to highlight a few pieces of skiing internet worth your time in Linking Turns. Find the best, most important, least important and otherwise links here each week. Link 1: How to Prevent Blowing a Knee this Winter (Powder Magazine) From Clare Menzel at Powder comes this piece about making sure you …
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Season opener: Who’s lifts are spinning in the Midwest?
The 2018/2019 season is off and running across North America and you might already have big eyes for Colorado’s healthy November snow totals, but before you jet set to the Rockies, you can take your first, uneasy, fall turns at your local hill in the Midwest first. Many of the Midwest’s finest areas are spinning …
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