Category: Ski

Instructor Profile #9: Jeanne Weiser

10/26/2016

Mogul Queen Jeanne Weiser started skiing when she was 17 at Apple Hill, in Allentown. Her first time was “not fun,” as she was “falling all over the place.” She has come a long way since then! She has skied many different places and, although she is approaching retirement age, is one of the best bump skiers around!

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Instructor Profile #7: Jonathan Coles

6/27/2016

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Jon Coles, a real estate broker, Blue Mountain instructor, and award winning equestrian (!) likes variety and goes "all out" in areas that interest him. At the same time, he values family traditions, which have influenced personal and professional decisions over the years.

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Instructor Profile #6: Susan Page

6/20/2016

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In fiction, people need spells or a wand to transform things from one state of being to another. Sue Page, however, of Susan Page Photography, makes magic with her camera. A Blue Mountain ski instructor, she is also the leading beauty and boudoir photographer in the Lehigh Valley and brings out the awesomeness that is within every woman through her images.

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Instructor Profile #5: Eric Lipton

6/9/2016

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I had heard about Eric Lipton long before I ever met him. I remember riding the lift with some instructors at Blue Mountain and Eric was initially described as one of the few select members of the PSIA (Professional Ski Instructors of America) National Team who travels wherever there is snow training other instructors. His skiing abilities were praised and likened to “a technical manual come to life.” As we ascended the hill, the stories became more fanciful: “It was an overcast day, but when Eric began to ski, the clouds opened and a sunbeam followed him down the mountain,” and then almost Biblical: “Eric was at the top of the moguls and when he planted his pole, the bumps parted and he skied down the middle.” The funny thing is, Eric’s rise through PSIA, which has enabled him to impact many people as he has skied all over the world, might not have happened. Just over a decade ago, he was barely skiing at all.

Eric's magazine cover! He's the skier in front.

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Instructor Profile #4: Kurt Hutchinson

6/3/2016

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Some people spend their whole lives trying to figure out what they want to do when they grow up. Kurt Hutchinson found two passions around age 10, when he started skiing and playing the drums. He still does both, with some construction on the side.

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Instructor Profile #2: Jan Peters

5/20/2016

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For most people, skiing 92 days at more than 20 resorts is an amazing season! For Jan Peters, a Blue Mountain instructor, it was an off-year, down from her usual 100+ days on snow.

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An Accidental Courtship

5/8/2016

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Happy Mother's Day & Happy Anniversary! May 8, 2016

My parents first saw each other the morning of March 28, 1965 in a little hotel in the German alps. Five weeks later, they were married.

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Ski History Fact #1

5/4/2016

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This graphic showing the evolution of skis comes from http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/12/first-skiers/ski-history-interactive. The dates did not copy, but they range from 8000 BC in China to the modern time. If you go to the site, you can click on the dates at the top for more information. The third one from the left has this blurb: "3200 BC Kalvträsk, Sweden A long pole with a scoop carved into one end likely served several purposes: steering downhill, shoveling, and as a club for hunting." Hitting things with poles goes way back! The tallest one (third from right) is from the US and it says: "c1860s Sierra Nevada, United States Initially American miners used 10-foot skis to travel in the mountains, and over time they began using longer skis to race each other." Talk about your long straight skis!