Coloradans who love to ski and snowboard may soon have the opportunity to celebrate those sports all year long on the vehicles they drive.
A proposal at the State Capitol to create a “Ski Country USA” license plate passed out of the State Senate 35-0 on Monday and is expected to sail through the State House as well.
Nearly 4,500 people have already committed to buying a plate, more than the 3,000 necessary for the state to break even on production costs…Â Details
Around 10,000 Britons a year are injured on the slopes.
But should the sport be regarded as any more dangerous than a game of football?
Safety experts insist not, and here’s why.
What is the likelihood of getting injured en piste?
With an average of 34 deaths a year, or 0.69 fatalities per million skiers and snowboarders, it is a very safe sport, providing you have the proper training and equipment, according to Dupont Emergency Response Solutions. …Â Details
Andrew Bradley gazed down the beginner’s slope at Alpine Meadows Ski Resort through a mask of trepidation.
The 20-year-old soldier never skied before. Had never really seen snow, save the icy inch that occasionally gathers around his Texas home.
Oh, and Bradley’s right leg was blown off just two months ago by a roadside bomb that struck his patrol in Iraq, a fact that he seemed to consider no greater a challenge than slick snow and gravity.
“I know it’s weird, but it really never bothered me…Â Details
Bill Demong of the United States has won the final Nordic combined event of the season and Anssi Koivuranta of Finland has clinched the overall title with an eighth-place finish.
Demong finished Sunday’s individual Gundersen event, which began with a ski jump and ended with a 10-kilometer cross country ski race, in … Details