Winter work, winter play - Lone Peak Lookout

Winter work, winter play
Lone Peak Lookout
While attending high school she stumbled upon a Freeskier Magazine article about the best degrees for ski bums, and as luck would have it, MSU was the only school in the country that had just the degree she desired - snow science. Flash forward a bit, ...

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Theater hits for the fences with baseball - WBEZ (blog)


WBEZ (blog)
Theater hits for the fences with baseball
WBEZ (blog)
You can't ski just anywhere or score a birdie on a four-par dogleg just anywhere. And while we're stopped at skiing and golf, you don't need a five-figure checking account to indulge in baseball and ya' never did. A final aspect of baseball that ...

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Skiing to 'be free' at age 53 - Whistler Question

Skiing to 'be free' at age 53
Whistler Question
“I'ma 35-year resident of Whistler — I'm one of the old school ski bums,” said Hughes. “And this all started as a bet with a friend of mine. I'm 53 years old and he said I was too old and too fat and he said I could never do a full season, ...

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Bob Smith, inventor of ski goggles, dies at 78 - Washington Post

Bob Smith, inventor of ski goggles, dies at 78
Washington Post
In the 1969 documentary film “The Last of the Ski Bums,” he was featured gliding through powder snow, a sensation the narrator likened to “skiing in a bubble bath.” As demand for his goggles spread, Dr. Smith formed his own company in Ketchum, Idaho.

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Bob Smith dies at 78; inventor of fog-resistant ski goggles - Los Angeles Times

Bob Smith dies at 78; inventor of fog-resistant ski goggles
Los Angeles Times
To test his goggles, Smith split his time in the late 1960s between his orthodontic practice and the slopes, according to the 1969 documentary "The Last of the Ski Bums," which shows him coasting through powder in Jackson Hole, Wyo.

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Orthodontist invented famed Smith ski goggles dies - Mid Columbia Tri City Herald

Orthodontist invented famed Smith ski goggles dies
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald
To test his goggles, Smith split his time in the late 1960s between his orthodontic practice and the slopes, according to the 1969 documentary "The Last of the Ski Bums," which shows him coasting through powder in Jackson Hole, Wyo.

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AIR NEW ZEALAND LIMITED : Ski-season capacity boost for Queenstown - more ... - 4-traders

AIR NEW ZEALAND LIMITED : Ski-season capacity boost for Queenstown - more ...
4-traders
We know that the majority of Australians who are actively considering visiting New Zealand are interested in skiing - so our activities this season will be very much focused on converting these into ski-bums on seats," he says.

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