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    <bigarticle id="9899">
      <title><![CDATA[Hurricane Ridge Road slipout melts plans for ski, snowboard school]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Ski Community Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1264107456" delta="6 weeks ago"><![CDATA[1/21/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[PORT ANGELES - Hurricane Ridge Road will remain closed for an estimated six weeks while a washout is repaired, Olympic National Park officials said Wednesday. The closure on Sunday cut off access to the popular Hurricane Ridge winter recreation area on the eve of the scheduled opening of the ski season, which is an important economic boost to the area each winter.The Hurricane Ridge Ski and Snowboard School was scheduled ...]]></text>
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    <bigarticle id="9898">
      <title><![CDATA[Randall, Newell headline American cross-country team]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Ski Community Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1264107285" delta="6 weeks ago"><![CDATA[1/21/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Kikkan Randall, Andy Newell and Kris Freeman headline a group of eight athletes on the 2010 U.S. Olympic cross-country ski team that will compete at the Winter Games next month. Randall, of Anchorage, Alaska, is America's best cross-country skier. Her silver medal at the world championships last year made her the first American woman to reach the podium at the world championships or Olympics.Like Randall, Freeman, of Andover, N.H., is ...]]></text>
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    <article id="9500">
      <title><![CDATA[What Now   Inbounds Avalanches]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Ski Community Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1262634793" delta="9 weeks ago"><![CDATA[1/4/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[A few minutes after noon on Dec. 14 last winter, as Snowbird skiers celebrated the opening of Mount Baldy for the first day of the season, the cry rang out: “Avalanche!” A slab of snow the width of a house had broken loose from a traverse atop the Utah resort and was charging downhill. Witnesses shouted warnings to a lone skier below on Fields of Glory, but there was no ...]]></text>
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    <article id="9499">
      <title><![CDATA[Snow Camera Goggle snaps your skiing exploits]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Ski Community Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1262634726" delta="9 weeks ago"><![CDATA[1/4/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[From the makers of the Digital Underwater Camera Mask comes a new gizmo that lets adrenaline junkies capture their skiing adventures. Liquid Image will be showing off its new 335 Snow Camera Goggle at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas.  The shooter is part of the new Summit Series of ski masks with integrated cameras. The hands-free snapper has a 5-megapixel image sensor that's also capable of recording ...]]></text>
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    <article id="9498">
      <title><![CDATA[Five die, three missing in Swiss avalanches]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Ski Community Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1262634675" delta="9 weeks ago"><![CDATA[1/4/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[ZURICH Five people died in avalanches in popular Swiss ski regions at the weekend, including a doctor flown in to rescue trapped skiers, and at least three were still missing, police said on Monday. Four people were killed in the Bernese Oberland, a region in western Switzerland popular among British tourists, when two successive avalanches hit a group of skiers on Sunday, a Bernese police spokesman said.Police declined to give ...]]></text>
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    <article id="9130">
      <title><![CDATA[Drinking on a ski holiday can be a recipe for disaster, Britons warned]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Ski Community Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1260466919" delta="12 weeks ago"><![CDATA[12/10/2009]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Outside the first snows were falling and inside the English-speaking pubs of Val d'Isčre the drinks orders came in thick and fast. "I've been here two weeks and I've been out every night," said Luke, a 24-year-old Londoner, who drove to the Alpine resort in the hope of finding work for the season.He hasn't found a job, but has discovered the joys of aprčs-ski. "It's usually four or five pints ...]]></text>
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    <article id="9129">
      <title><![CDATA[Plenty of pressure on Vonn as Olympics approach]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Ski Community Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1260466853" delta="12 weeks ago"><![CDATA[12/10/2009]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[If you hear anything about Alpine skiing these days, you hear that Lindsey Vonn is supposed to be the star of February's Vancouver Olympics. Supposed to win medals, plural, not merely one. Supposed to win golds, not any old color. Supposed to sell products for the companies whose logos adorn her hats, her jackets, her skis.And, last but not least, Vonn is supposed to be the camera-ready face of her ...]]></text>
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    <article id="9128">
      <title><![CDATA[Now for Regular Skiers, the Ultra Terrain]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Ski Community Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1260466752" delta="12 weeks ago"><![CDATA[12/10/2009]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[JOAQUIN AND VIRGINIA FOLCH have skied virgin powder through the fjordlands of remote eastern Greenland and forged trails at altitudes of over 13,000 feet in the Rohtang Pass in the Indian Himalayas. Heli-skiing with a group of experts, Mr. Folch opened a route on Mount Elbrus in Russia near the Georgian border, where they heard the sounds of guns and explosives in the distance. “And we were going into the ...]]></text>
    </article>
    <article id="6292">
      <title><![CDATA[Canadian Women Dominate FIS Giant Slalom at Coronet Peak]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Ski Community Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1251753551" delta="27 weeks ago"><![CDATA[8/31/2009]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Queenstown, New Zealand - The Canadian National Women's ski team dominated Wednesday's giant slalom, posting the six fastest times -- and 12 of the top 13 - on the first day of racing at the Air New Zealand FIS Southern Cup Race Series at Coronet Peak ski area. The Canadian women were led by Marie Michelle Gagnon with a combined time of 1:44.70. Gagnon was closely followed by team-mates Genevieve ...]]></text>
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    <article id="6291">
      <title><![CDATA[Toni Sailer dies at age 73]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Ski Community Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1251752930" delta="27 weeks ago"><![CDATA[8/31/2009]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[U.S. Ski Team officials mourned the passing of one of ski racing's greatest stars. Toni Sailer, an Austrian who swept all three gold medals at the 1956 Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy died Monday, Aug. 24 at Innsbruck, Austria after a long illness. He was 73. The Kitzbuehel Ski Club announced Sailer's death. Sailer (pronounced SIGH-ler) was the first international hero in alpine ski racing. At 20, he swept every ...]]></text>
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    <article id="6290">
      <title><![CDATA[2010 U.S. Freestyle Ski Team Officially Announced]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Ski Community Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1251752380" delta="27 weeks ago"><![CDATA[8/31/2009]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[The U.S. Freestyle Ski Team has long been one of the strongest groups of athletes in the world. This season, the lineup looks stronger than ever. Nine Olympians top the list (including the three 2009 World Championship medalists) of 36 athletes.  Hot shots include World Championship gold medalists Ryan St. Onge (Winter Park, CO) and Patrick Deneen (Cle Elum, WA), and World Championship bronze medalist and Overall World Cup ...]]></text>
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    <article id="6289">
      <title><![CDATA[Austrian Ski Racing Star Renate Goetschl Retires]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Ski Community Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1251752173" delta="27 weeks ago"><![CDATA[8/31/2009]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[The 18-year veteran of the Austrian Ski Team (ÖSV) can look back on a storied career, which includes 46 World Cup victories, including the overall title in 2000, plus three World Championships gold medals and two Olympic medals. Despite her career success, Goetschl has faced increasing challenges finding the podium in recent years. ÖSV Alpine Director Hans Pum wished Goetschl luck at a news conference announcing her retirement this week. ...]]></text>
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