Skiing & Winter Sports

DEPT 56 SNOWBABIES “Let’s go skiing”
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Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:03:18 PDT
Skiing with the legends of
Sun Valley MEET THE MOUNTAIN and its stars, from Gable to Arnold to Baldy Pause at the top of Bald Mountain on a brilliant day and it’s clear how the Sawtooth Range got its name — its silver peaks glistening in the sunlight high above the Ketchum…

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 05:00:00 GMT
carouse - podictionary 622
When I think of people carousing my personal definition fits fairly well with The Concise Oxford English Dictionary definition which says that to carouse is to: drink alcohol and enjoy oneself with others in a noisy, lively way But more than that, I picture in my minds eye a group of people stumbling happily from bar to bar. Theres a sense of motion to carouse as well as a sense of drinking and partying. I see that Urbandictionary has got this all wrong. Whoever put the entry in there seems to have confused carouse with caress and arouse. Id have thought a web resource with such a heavy drinking demographic would have caught this mistake. But then I went to see in the Sketchengine corpus”that database of words”whether there was a sense of approval or disapproval surrounding the word carouse. Im not sure I saw either, but what I did see was support for my feeling that there was a sense of motion to carousing. I saw several examples in there where writers had used the word carouse not to mean drinking at all, but to mean motion instead. In one case children were said to have caroused through the house with unstoppable stamina and somewhere else Sir Richard Branson is described on a ski trip to Aspen carousing down the powdery slopes. To be sure these examples are the minority. All the dictionaries talk of carousing as drinking and none give that sense of trajectory, and by far most of the corpus examples fit with the dictionary definitions. So this is too slight evidence to proclaim a change in meaning for carouse, but I wonder. The word carouse first appeared in 1567 when William Shakespeare was just three; too young to carouse. But to carouse has undoubtedly always meant to drink since it is in fact a contraction of a German phrase gar-aus trinken that means all out drinking. By all out drinking they dont seem to mean necessarily putting your full all out effort into your drinking, but instead, as the American Heritage Dictionary explains, the sense is that at closing time when the bartender tells everyone to get out, drinkers are forced to quickly drain their glass. So the all out drinking is this chugging. One of the citations from the Oxford English Dictionary caught my eye was from one of our favorite dictionary makers Dr. Johnson. When he wasnt writing his dictionary he also wrote about the lives of English poets and one of those was a guy named James Thomson. According to Samuel Johnson in this citation James Thomson was invited to Marlborough Castle, the estate of Lord and Lady Hertford. Lady Hertford fancied herself a bit of a poet too and wanted some tips from James Thomson, but Dr. Johnson tells us, instead Thomson went carousing with Lord Hertford and so never got invited back. I see from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography though that Samuel Johnson was only partly right in this. Thomson seems to have visited Marlborough Castle repeatedly over more than a decade and also to have traded rhymes with her ladyship throughout. But Thomson was indeed an expert carouser with repeated tales of all night binges and an evidently higher concern for drinking all out than for managing his money. Fortunately for him he seemed to drink (and write poetry) with the right crowd and many”including the Queen and Prince of Wales”bailed him out from time to time.

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:01:54 EDT
Skiing brochure with The Times tomorrow
It might seem a bit premature to start planning your skiing holiday but up in the north of Italy and Austria the hot weather is already making way for another fantastic winter on skis and snowboards. Tomorrow sees the publication of P&A Sullivan’s skiing holiday brochure for 2007/2008.

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST
“Skiing 7 Summits” trailer
“Skiing 7 Summits” trailerbvirc5 min - Mar 5, 2007The film »Skiing 7 Summits« features a story about a first-ever skiing expedition to the 7 highest mountains of all continents, including the first ski descent from Mt. Everest. Slovenian extreme skier Davo Karni?ar, the first man ever to accomplish such a feat, completed this project in December 2006.
His extraordinary skiing descent from Mt. Everest in year 2000 has likewise not been repeated yet. Other skiers, including Kit DesLauriers, managed to ski only sections of the descent or were either assisted by rappelling or carried their skis on foot across the cruxes of the route.

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:42:31 PST

Thanks to the Secretariat of Tourism of Argentina, which has developed the “Argentina is Better” program, the slopes of Argentina’s south have been attracting more upper- and upper-middle class people who are keen on the sport. These people not only go skiing when it is winter in their countries, but also travel to New Zealand or Australia in summer. But that is because they are unaware of the first-rate skiing centers in South America, says Argentine Secretariat of Tourism spokesman Juan Pablo Reynal.

“At present Argentina has only between 5 and 7 percent” of the global skiing market in the summer months, says Reynal. “We intend to capture between 25 and 30 percent of the market in two years.”

In order to lure skiers south, the Secretariat is launching a marketing campaign that combines the state’s efforts with those of the country’s main ski resorts. In addition to visiting the principal ski fairs in the US, the government has also set up a call center to offer a direct sale service. In the end, however, the biggest lure will be the destinations themselves, especially Las Lenas Valley and Bariloche.

LAS LENAS

SFist Photo: San Francisco’s Icer Air 2007 at AT&T Park
SFist: A pinstriped skier got inverted in front of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge this afternoon. You should know all about Icer Air by now. We’ve followed this event from controversial beginnings in 2005 and some growing pains last year in 2006. Skiing down Fillmore was awesome, but Icer …

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Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:58:14 GMT

Twiggy and the BMX Pro Stunt team, featuring threetime ESPN X- Games gold medal winner Trevor Meyer, will be featured at the grand opening celebration for Integrity Bank’s third branch at 13475 Voyager Parkway, southeast of Voyager Parkway and North Gate Boulevard.

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The squirrel, who drew a crowd of more than 1,000 at another Integrity branch opening in 2005, is scheduled to perform in a heated pool at 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and noon, and the BMX team will perform at 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. The branch opened on Monday.