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Preventing injuries to your knees (Dallas Morning News)
After years of hard-core skiing, hiking, biking and tennis, Ann Dickerson knew the recent pain in her knees meant she needed treatment. But she didn't expect the advice: partial joint replacement on both knees.
Into the trees and lovin' it (Journal Inquirer)
The tree skiing in Vermont is the best it’s been in five years. No question about it. Take last Sunday at Okemo, for example. Everything was open and everything had more than an adequate cover. It was actually easy to forget it was mid-March.
Bitterroot Resort’s latest proposal rejected (Ravalli Republic)
LOLO - It’s back to the drawing board for the Bitterroot Resort after the Forest Service rejected its latest proposal to bring skiing to National Forest lands above Tom Maclay’s ranch just outside of Lolo.
Fringe sports get a splash of panache (Rocky Mountain News)
If you're ready for new thrills, new challenges and new tricks on the water, give barefoot skiing and wakeskating a try.
Wanaka: Night riders (The New Zealand Herald)
Wanaka's Snow Park has installed floodlights to allow night skiing by those for whom a full day on the snow is not enough.
Options for golf abound in Aspen, the valley (The Aspen Times)
ASPEN - If it weren't for the mountains and the whole skiing thing, Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley might be best known as a golfing Mecca.
The Comet (The Comet)
THE family of a young skiing instructor who died after suffering from a brain tumour for seven months have already raised more than £12,500 for the hospice who cared for him, via an online blog of his story.
Summer Sports Are Among the Safest (New York Times)
Measured by the rate of injury while participating, the most dangerous outdoor recreational activity is snowboarding, followed by sledding.
No need to yell 'action!' (Rocky Mountain News)
During the 2006-07 ski season, Louisiana businessman James Griffith was skiing at Beaver Creek with his wife, their 8-year-old twins, a business partner and his wife.
In San Francisco, Mapping Out a Trail on the Water (New York Times)
The idea of establishing a path on water may seem odd. But it hasn?t stopped the states of Washington and Maine, among other entities, from building extensive water trail systems.