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		<title>Pond Skimming: The Epic End to the Ski Season</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Spring is here and to close out the ski season, you should look to celebrate with the epic event of pond skimming. Pond skimming is exactly what it sounds like, skiers and snowboarders take turns riding down the mountain and attempting to get themselves across a pond, aiming to travel the farthest distance before splashing down.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why You Should Think Twice About Going to Sochi</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a certain irony in the fact that a former communist country is now hosting the most expensive Winter Olympic event in history. It wasn&#8217;t supposed to be that way. Attending Sochi Olympics The Dream and the Nightmare Prior to the announcement of the Russian application for the Olympics, many citizens believed that the mountainous...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>International Women&#8217;s Ski Day</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[It took awhile for ski manufacturers to figure out that women are different from men. K2 was one of the first to benefit from this enlightenment. That&#8217;s why they developed their T Nine line for women. The Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 inspired the name. It states that: No person in the...]]></description>
		
		
		
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