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Cross Training – Part III

Cross Training – Part III

| August 16, 2008 | 3 Comments

continued from yesterday… Mountain Biking Aside from crashing, mountain bikes are a low impact way to get out, enjoy a long tour, work out your entire body and build up lung capacity.  The biking season perfectly compliments the ski season and many skiers are strong bikers in the summer. Halfway there on the 100 mile […]

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Cross Training – Part II

Cross Training – Part II

| August 15, 2008 | 0 Comments

Before I got into Ski Mountaineering, I’d climb in the summer and ski in the winter, but it never occurred to me to combine the two activities.  Once I did, I wondered why I hadn’t thought of it sooner as they were such perfect compliments to each other.  Climbing not only gets you outdoors and […]

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Cross Training – Part I

Cross Training – Part I

| August 14, 2008 | 2 Comments

Cross training for ski mountaineering by doing other sports has many excellent advantages as well as keeping things interesting and motivating. Any activity, from walking to skydiving, which involves outdoor exercise on a daily basis is superb. Greg Hill, the man who punched out 1,000,000 vertical feet of hiking in one season and set a 24 […]

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