How to Improve Your Balance for Skiing

Luck plays a role in early-season skiing (Exeter News-Letter)

The start of any snow season is always a little dependent on the luck of the draw. If you try to fill an inside straight, you're going to lose more often than not. My sweetheart Marilyn and I lost our bet recently.

Tailor-made Scania serves Swedens national skiing team (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

STOCKHOLM, Sweden----Regulatory News:

Best of Vermont skiing (Boston Globe)

Looking for a few inside tips? The Globe has surveyed the scene from top to bottom and taken notes:

Dr. Paul Donohue: Drug can cause muscle problem (Detroit News)

Dear Dr. Donohue: I am a 70-year-old retired surgeon who has taken Lipitor for the past five years. I also am a serious slalom water-skier. This sport puts great stress on muscles. While skiing, I suffered a silent tear of the hamstring muscle that became painful several hours later. A large hematoma formed. I know that a complication of Lipitor is muscle weakness, and I discontinued it ...

Blueberry Ridge opens for season (The Mining Journal)

MARQUETTE - Get those cross-country skis out of storage and hit the trails. "It's really good skiing," said Sten Fjeldheim, cross-country ski coach at Northern Michigan University. Fjeldheim has been skiing at Blueberry Ridge Pathway in Sands Township with his ski team for the past few days. About a foot of snow covered the trails Thursday morning with more snow falling throughout the day.