Looking at the elite results, there were very few Canadians, one German and no other non-US skiers. Did the others decide not to come, given the...

http://www.skinnyski.com/racing/results/2003-2004/movies/birkie-s1.mpg JT

The AGU has just adopted a consensus statement, the first two paragraphs of which say: Human activities are increasingly altering the Earth's...

Gene, Jim Farrell was right about one thing, I did marginalize you and for that I am truely sorry. I re-read what I wrote. You are a deep thinking...

I'm sorry if I offended any of the newsgroup liberals over the past few days with my opinions on taxes and SUVs. I live in a liberal area and have a...

Hi All, I thought it might be fun to see what finish time people estimate for me for the upcoming Birkebeiner. Given a few marginally relavent...

Heard a couple of weeks ago about the appointment of Amy Caldwell to CVTC (Callaghan Valley Training Centre), and wondered if there was a...

Looking for a change, I took my Aero 150s over to Tilden Regional Park this afternoon to try out some of the fire roads. I had tried this before...

I'm posting this not to fan any flames, but just to throw out a perspective in contrast to some of the extremely fine-points of technique analysis...

Anybody know when actual gliding skiing started? I suspect the really old versions were mostly snowshoe replacements. gr

Sorry I wrote all that attacking stuff that had no place on this NG. I was driven to a rage by the unfavorable comparison to the unibomber. I tried...

International Bicycle Design Competition http://design.runride.com/design/mipis/lybm40dbfa.asp?Page=1&key=creation2004&store=design&frecno=6

check isohunt, search fis world cup. thanks to basilbrush.

I hung out this past weekend with a buncha guys who make my XC buddies look like tame gear-freaks in comparison. One guy has maybe 30-50 pairs of...

I saw a tidbit this week that AJ has decided to race domestically with Fischer Swix for the next two years, and then make a play for the 2012 Games....

I haven't seen it mentioned, so just wanted to call attention to Andrey's winning the Chimney Rock Challenge 15k freestyle last week by eight...

Garnet hill is also a nice romantic place. Cheaper, 15 minutes further. Better grooming. Food included. Have fun! G -- Dr. Lisa Fields-Jacobson,...

http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/sport/spill/verdi/45261# Try that link! (required Internet Exploder, unfortunately. :-() Doing backflips with double...

Thought you folks might like this one. From the the Monday Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in the "quotables" section: "We push our bodies above and...

Beside his ideas on how to improve glide, that are not the object of that topic, Kuzmin came up with tools that fit onto and Angle Grinder instead of...