Skiing

Breckenridge Ski Resort offers the best location in Colorado for a getaway the whole year round. In the wintertime, the resort has the best winter sports the country has to offer, with a total of 31 lifts! Breckenridge is not only an adventure during the winter, though. It also offers the Breckenridge Fun Park during the summer. It provides fun for all ages throughout the entire year.

Black Diamond is a naming convention and graphic representation that the ski industry uses to identify the steepest slopes in a geography, generally a pitch of 40% or more, that may or may not be groomed.

Not all slopes in a geography are marked with black diamonds.

It can be used that if it's a change of possion u can quickly turn around as fast as u can.

It is a snowboard where the tip and tail are exactly the same width. This is the most common shape of a snowboard. There are two types of twin boards- a true twin and a directional twin. A true twin means the board is 100% symmetrical. The stance is centered, the flex is even, and the sidecut is radial. This is the shape you find mostly on freestyle boards. A directional twin has twin tips and sometimes a centered stance, but the flex is directional and/or the sidecut is progressive. This is the most versatile shape and is commonly found on all-mountain snowboards.

An alpine ski racer generally works their way through several levels of racing. In the United States:

1) Most racers start on a Development Team, which gives them an opportunity to try our the sport and have a lot of fun.

2) Those who do well move to a league called USSA

3) The best racers in USSA race a program called FIS

4) World Cup teams and the U.S Ski Team are chosen off racers who race FIS

5) The fastest members of the U.S Ski Team race in the Olympics

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Slalom is the name given to water skiing with one ski.

Ice hockey was invented in Canada. Hockey in general was invented by various societies around the world, but none of these were in Canada.
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yes, it was invented in Canada in 1875

In slalom, GS, SG and DH , your score is the amount of time it takes you to complete the course. The person with the lowest amount of time is the winner.

It is unknown exactly when Cross Country was invented. This is because man himself have been racing against each other sense the caveman era. It was deemed to be "manly" to be the faster man in the tribe. Over time, the races became more sophisticated and organized, to the point of where it is at today.

You can Buy roller blades in shops like Toys-R-Us

And Argos and many other stores the sell toy in fact most toy shops

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Right after World War II. Veterans of the US Army's 10th Mountain Division returned from the European Theater of Operations and introduced the military skills of downhill skiing, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing to the American public as fun winter sports.

Well, yes, because it's good for you, like any other sport. But it's not like, an exercise like, push ups or something, because its fun!

if by regular skis you mean downhill skis, then longjump skis are similar, but they are nearly twice as long and twice as wide-- the greater surface area makes the ski jumper accelerate faster, thereby allowing him to travel farther off of the jump

Yes; many if not all North Face brand jackets have some sort of insullation in them. Most of them come with a removeable fleece or fleece like zip out vest in the shell which can be removed for warmer temps and put back in for colder.

Statistics from Sweden show that the snowboarders are about 10% of the people in the slopes and is slowly decresing. In the alps where most skiing in the world is done are the snowboarders much fewer than that typically around 2-3%.

Skiing weather is when it is snowing slightly, or it is cold but not to cold. OH, and be sure to be careful.

Yes. Winter time sees excellent snowfalls for skiing in the Snowy Mountains region of southeastern New South Wales and northeastern Victoria. Central Tasmania also sees good snowfalls. These falls usually only start in June at the earliest - usually July - and continue through August, tapering off in the early months of Spring. Several of Australia's main snow resorts include the Kosciuszko National Park in NSW (Charlotte's Pass, Thredbo, Blue Cow) and Victoria (Mt Bogong, Fall's Creek, Mt Hotham, etc).

Waxing skis make your skis faster. You also want to have smooth bottoms on your skis. Smooth bottoms of your ski - It is CRITCIAL to avoid skiing over rocks, dirt, or anything that is not ice and snow. This can cause scratches, nicks, and divots in the bottom of your ski. You want the bottoms to be as smooth and scratch free if possible. The smoother they are, the more surface area touches the snow which allows you to ski faster. "Burrs" are what they call nicks on your edges and the bottom of your ski. Waxing your skis - This is usually done the night before a ski race. You melt wax over your skis with and then iron the wax over the skis. Ski wax comes in a variety of colors which are associated with different temperature ranges. The purpose of different wax for different temperatures is because the consistency of the snow changes with the temperature. The day of the race you scrape the wax off your skis. There will be some wax that still remains on the bottom and will quickly wear off. Consult a local ski shop for proper technique.

Waxing also protects your skis. If you don't wax them, the bases can become oxidized.

The amended results of the 2002 Olympic Figure Skating Pairs competition was that both Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze of Russia and Jamie Sale and David Pelletier of Canada were awarded gold medals.

The highest "ski resort" (one old tow-rope lift and a cafe at the base) is in South America's poorest country, Boliva, atop Mt. Chacaltaya. The lift isn't always running, so chances are you'll have to hike it.

And it's high -- more than 17,300 feet. I'm from Colorado and use to skiing some fairly high terrain, but I got an immediate, hard headache when I hiked to the top (not all that impressive, since I started at 11,800 feet in nearby La Paz, Bolivia's capital city). I got down quick.

I only did it for bragging rights :) And for the photo op.

But it's melting. Rapidly. The long-time skiers who operate the lodge told me they once skied atop a 40-foot snow base with snow extending all the way to La Paz, which is visible from the mountain but a hefty drive.

Now, it's mostly rock. The only visible snow was above the lodge... at least when I was there in February, which apparently use to be the middle of the ski season.

Most scientists blame global warming. Science labs (including a NASA-run facility, I was told) dot the side of the narrow dirt road to the mountain's base.

So, certainly not a skiing destination. Though it is a visually powerful example of how fast the globe is warming and what can happen in a very, very short period of time.

Writer: Bolivia is in the southern hemisphere, and you visited in February (summer), so perhaps it's not global warming. Maybe you need a better travel agent for ski vacations, mate. No wonder the lift wasn't working.

1.you need snow pants,jacket,gloves,hat)tuquike,scarf,boots

2.underneath all that you need long sleeved shirt,warm sweater, thermals,thermal socks,sweat pants or comfy pants or jeans but jeans are not very comfy,hair up in a pony tail if you can.

3.HAVE LOTS OF FUN!!

$8-15 an hour, depending where you work, and how many certifications you have.

As a ski instructor at a large resort it all depends. Did you have fun? Are you safe? What did you learn? Did you ever even consider leaving? Were you eager to hear what they had to say? Believe it or not, most ski instructors make minimum wage and need those tips. Skiing is an expensive sport, even new gloves for the instructor can cost 60+ dollars. That could take about a full 8 hour day to make. Plus they would have to skip lunch. But if you enjoyed the lesson, or if your kid did, than give about 50% of the lesson cost. So even though for you the lesson cost 50 dollars for an hour. The instructor gets about 7 dollars of that. And at a large resort the instructor is only paid when teaching, so they might be there all day and only teach one lesson and make 7$. If you are going to comeback. Request a private lesson with that instructor. It usually has a bonus for the instructor.

You should get new skis when your side wall is shot... When your base is torn up beyond repair... If your skis in in two pieces... If your technology is outdated.