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grin and barrett !

http://www.grinandbarrett.ca

ski and travel blog from two ski instructors who like to travel the world to extend or enhance their season!

• Added on: Dec 24th, 2007
• Country: Canada
• Language: English

• Author: phil barrett
• Listed in: Sports Outdoor Recreation
• Tags: ski racing mountains skiing alpine ski instructor

Recent Posts

• 3 Wordle Clouds from Ski Press Magazine Ski Test Week

  Posted on Monday April 6th, 2009 at 05:43 in wordle, ski press, ski press magazine, ski test, 2010 skis

  Wordle is an online toy for generating “word clouds” from text (or URL) that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts,...

• Ski Press Magazine Ski Test Week - Day 4 Summary

  Posted on Friday April 3rd, 2009 at 05:11 in vist, icebreaker, leki poles, ste anne, ski press, ski press magazine, alpina goggles, ski testing, ski testing for ski press

  We came. We skied. We tested. About 35 skis later and we’re drinking a glass of wine looking over Baie-St-Paul. Today wasn’t the epic day we were expecting. The weather was predicted to be 9 degrees and sunny, instead it was about 4 degr...

• Ski Press Magazine Ski Test Week - Day 3 Summary

  Posted on Thursday April 2nd, 2009 at 06:36 in vist, icebreaker, leki poles, ste anne, ski press, ski press magazine, alpina goggles, ski testing, ski testing for ski press, le massif

  After two days of mostly cloudy, foggy and what could be described as Ontario hard pack conditions, we finally saw blue skies on day three - although you’d never know it by the picture above which was taken in the morning. Unlike day two, I had...

• Ski Press Magazine Ski Test Week - Day 2 Summary

  Posted on Wednesday April 1st, 2009 at 06:58 in vist, icebreaker, leki poles, ste anne, ski press, ski press magazine, alpina goggles, ski testing, ski testing for ski press

  Our first day started out as an adventure. We got to the top of the mountain fairly early and decided to take a run down the south side. Since we’ve arrived there has been some rain and it’s been warm. We scooted over to the top of one of...

• Ski Press Magazine Ski Test Week - Day 1 Summary

  Posted on Tuesday March 31st, 2009 at 06:49 in vist, icebreaker, leki poles, ste anne, ski press, ski press magazine, alpina goggles, ski testing, ski testing for ski press

  Our first day started at 8:15am at the bottom of the Gondola where we met our groups and were given intructions for the day. Because of the varied conditions up top, we were going to spend the day testing all mountain skis in the performance category...

• A very civilized way to begin our week

  Posted on Monday March 30th, 2009 at 06:52

  With car trouble adding stress to what was already going to be a stressful 8.5 hour drive in the rain to Mont Ste-Anne on Sunday, Sasha & I cashed in some travel points and took a much more civilized route to Quebec yesterday. We were able to boo...

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