Winter weddings at Western ski destinations come in all sizes and sites. Marriage-minded romantics can pick and choose from traditional ceremonies at five-star hotels and resorts, wedding chapels and century-old churches.
Or, in a growing trend, brides and grooms can say “I do” in diverse settings such as inside a yurt or aboard a hot-air balloon, gondola, horse-drawn sleigh, Sno-Cat, dogsled, pair of skis or snowboard…Â More info
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As a boy in the 1920s, Paul Goszyk skied the snow-blanketed mountains surrounding his home in Ustron, Poland.
His parents had six children and couldn’t afford to buy him skis, so his father crafted a pair from wooden boards and made poles using two sticks.
Goszyk and his friends used homemade gear to scale nearby peaks, race down forest trails and jump off a ramp built for their town’s youth ski club.
That was before 1939, when Germany invaded Poland — before Goszyk fought against the Nazis during World War II, and before he was captured and enslaved for five years. Through it all, his love for skiing endured…Â More info
…had a severe sense of d?j? vu after first playing Snowboard Riot on Wii. Shushing through this downloadable title, it dawned on me: this is just a clone of Snowboard Kids, but with hipster characters instead of the oversized anime boarders that were used in Atlus’ previous designs. You don’t get much in this ten dollar purchase: four uncreative slopes with absolutely no single player progression. Its focus is more on the pick-up-and-play racing, but with very little at stake (and with some of the most obnoxious rubberband AI routines ever), there’s not much draw in Hudson’s competitive design.
Snowboard Riot isn’t so much a snowboarding game as it is a racing game on snow…Â More info…
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Two giants of the Winter Olympic world were speaking out about the Michael Phelps bong-smoking hoo-haw today, both coming at it from different sides.
Seattle speedskater Apolo Ohno, a five-time Olympic medalist, said his own behavior in public has changed markedly in the modern world of cell-phone cameras and real-time uploading. Since entering that very public world of media and sponsorship morals clauses, “My behavior has changed dramatically,” Ohno said…Â More info
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