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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 20:29:00 EDT
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Re: two questions:

> Is there Snow in the U.S. Yet????

Last weekend some places in Colorado got up to six inches from one cold
front.  I think Rocky Mountain National Park, and Berthoud Pass, got some.
I'm sure it melted off fast.  Skiing is still a couple of months away...

(It's not unusual here to be pelted by corn snow when hiking above
12000', even in August.)

> Can anyone recommend exercises (Other than just general exercises .i.e
> jogging) to prepare for downhill skiing this winter??? 

A sports physician, speaking on preventing injuries, recommended one
specific exercise.  Put a cinder block (for starters, a soft crushable
shoebox) on the floor, and hop back and forth, side to side, over it.
He said you'd be doing well if you could keep it up for two (?) minutes.
Higher is better too, as you improve.  This exercise is supposed to be
one of the few with high "correlation" to skiing.

Oh yes, another one he recommended is: back to a wall, slide down, bend
knees, until thighs are horizontal, and hold.  Repeat.  Something like
that.  (Naturally, both of these are painful...)

Alan Silverstein, Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Systems Division, Colorado
{ihnp4 | hplabs}!hpfcla!ajs, 303-226-3800 x3053, N 40 31'31" W 105 00'43"