Ten places I want to ski before Climate Change overtakes the snow

I just spent the last 2 weeks researching the Dolomites, Holy Cow! They are beautiful, big, littered with couloirs, long valleys and rifugios that are ridiculous in the level of service you expect to find above 6,000'. That pushed me to make my wish list where I want to ski before the snow goes away.  I thought I should share my list  and hope I hear some more ideas from you:

Canada

• Roger's Pass
• Fairy Meadows/Sorcerer Lodge
• Wapta Traverse

Europe

• La Grave
• Dolomites
• Chamonix/Courmeyeur

Asia

• Manali/Simla
• Hokkaido

South America

• Chile-Volcanoes

Africa

• Morocco/Toubkal

Those are my ten places to ski before Climate Change, so where do you want to go?

Workout of the Day-Next week begins the Periodization for Opening Day!

Some might think that some east german cult abducted me with all this talk of periodization! I actually suffered memory loss and recall some bright lights and sharp pain in my neck before waking up with this idea, however Mulder and Scully are on and I am back to working out, whew... With that out of the way, Periodization is a systematic approach to reach optimal performance at a particular time of your choosing. For someone like myself, it also performs the role of injury prevention.

The combination of sport specific and general core fitness will help me start the ski season and absorb some of the high impacts that occur at the higher speeds of downhill skiing.  Today I did a leg centric routine combining maximal strength and work capacity.


Warm up: Shoulder band stretch from 8' bar, 3 sets of 10 air squats

WO 1:      Back squats 3-5 sets working up to a set of 3eps at maximum load

WO 2      2 Kettle bell (8-16 kg) 3 reps(9 total per round) of sumo deadlift/dl & clean/dl & snatch for as many rounds in 15 minutes.

I felt worked but not over the top. Good enough to begin the next 8 week periodization cycle for mid-December opening day. If you are interested in following, let me know and I can post an actual schedule for the 8 week cycle.

Google Sidewiki entry by Matt

Makes the expression head in the sand seem more relevant.

in reference to: The Associated Press: Saudis ask for aid if world cuts dependence on oil (view on Google Sidewiki)