Word: skis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...family had gathered at the Sundeck restaurant on top of the mountain in Aspen, fame's playground, waiting for the slopes to clear at the end of the day so they could have the hill to themselves to continue the annual family downhill football game. The ski patrol was not keen on this bit of Kennedy showboating and had warned that it was a dangerous sport--skiing fast and close, without poles, tossing a football through improvised goals as the sun sank and the shadows stretched and the slopes turned gray and icy. Aspen has had less snow than normal...
Turner said Fitzpatrick "sounded happy" when she spoke with her a week before her death. Fitzpatrick was in Kilington, Vt. on a ski trip at the time...
This season shaped skis account for more than 80% of the alpine skis being sold. (Total ski sales of $24.3 million were up 82% from the comparable period a year ago.) Shaped skis "have given a new life to skiing," says Bruce Barrows, vice president for sales and marketing at Elan-Monark, which introduced the first sharply shaped ski four years...
...shaped ski, a slim hourglass, is fat tipped, narrow waisted and wide tailed, making it shorter and more flexible than the traditional ski. The curved sides of the shaped ski carve perfect, skid-free arcs when edged into the snow, resulting in more stable and responsive runs for first-timers as well as advanced skiers. More than 60 models are available, and you can get help from manufacturers www.snowlink.com) retailers and ski magazines in choosing. Among the hot skis this year: K2-Four ($600), Volkl Snow Ranger Lite ($475), Salomon X Mountain ($655), Volant PowerKarve ($555) and Rossignol...
...keep up, ski makers must constantly improve their wares. Salomon recently launched its SnowBlade, creating a hybrid that captures the thrills of skiing, in-line skating and snowboarding. As Carl Helmetag, CEO of Head USA observes, "Snowboarding opened a whole new image of fun, of carving through powder and trees, and these new skis answer that need in skiing. You can hear people on these skis whoop and holler. It's an incredible thing...