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		<title>Incoming Snow</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Kircher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you believe the weather forecast, we are headed for serious snow starting this afternoon through next week.

According to Larry Schick:

    A big snow will move in Friday through Sunday. Initially, later on Friday, the snow level will <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kimkircher.com&amp;blog=15079428&amp;post=2893&amp;subd=kimkircher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Skiing With Your Idol</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Kircher</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Crystal Mountain]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ingrid Backstrom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ski]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, my step-daughter Evelyn and I had chance to ski with Ingrid Backstrom and her mom Betsy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kimkircher.com&amp;blog=15079428&amp;post=2880&amp;subd=kimkircher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly High Five Report: Kate Middleton, future ski patroller</title>
		<link>http://kimkircher.com/2012/02/21/weekly-high-five-report-kate-middleton-future-ski-patroller/</link>
		<comments>http://kimkircher.com/2012/02/21/weekly-high-five-report-kate-middleton-future-ski-patroller/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Kircher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All things winter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ski Patrolling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ski Resorts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Sky Resort]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ski patrol]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of getting to know Kate Middleton, Big Sky local and ripping skier. Kate is 12 years old and she already knows what she wants to do for a living. She wants to be a ski patroller. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kimkircher.com&amp;blog=15079428&amp;post=2872&amp;subd=kimkircher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Avalanche Deaths</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Kircher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Avalanches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heroic Deeds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skiing/Snowboarding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alpental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[avalanche]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stevens Pass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tunnel Creek]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was a bad day for skiing in Washington. Four people were killed in two separate avalanche incidents. It's been all over the news--especially the avalanche at Stevens Pass that killed three. As I followed the condolences and shock on Twitter and Facebook yesterday afternoon, I realized how easy it is to cast judgement. I live and play in the mountains. Even those that have never spent a day chasing powder have still taken risks that 99% of the time do not end poorly. But when others take risks and die, the convenient response--the reaction that makes us feel just slightly better--is that we would not have taken the same risk. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kimkircher.com&amp;blog=15079428&amp;post=2864&amp;subd=kimkircher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Snow</title>
		<link>http://kimkircher.com/2012/02/18/snow-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Kircher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All things winter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Avalanches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crystal Mountain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skiing/Snowboarding]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's snowing hard at Crystal this morning. I think we may have brought it back from Japan. Let me tell you, if a gal has to fly to Japan now and again to make it snow here, then I'm okay with that.

The patrol is heading out for avalanche control (hence the early morning post) and we're anticipating a busy day. Get up here early. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kimkircher.com&amp;blog=15079428&amp;post=2855&amp;subd=kimkircher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where the Snow Lives: Niseko Japan</title>
		<link>http://kimkircher.com/2012/02/16/where-the-snow-lives-niseko-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Kircher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[All things winter]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Onsen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skiing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When we arrived in the middle of the night on Monday, it was snowing hard. The banks along the street outside The Hooting Owl Lodge reached nearly to the power lines. The windows in our room were encased in snow. The next morning, it was still snowing. Several inches had accumulated in our footprints from the night before.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kimkircher.com&amp;blog=15079428&amp;post=2841&amp;subd=kimkircher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly High-Five Report: A Birthday for Bubbles</title>
		<link>http://kimkircher.com/2012/02/14/weekly-high-five-report-a-birthday-for-bubbles/</link>
		<comments>http://kimkircher.com/2012/02/14/weekly-high-five-report-a-birthday-for-bubbles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Kircher</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bubbles Birthday]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Shattuck]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since I have the World's Best Dad, I can understand the love a daughter has for her father. A woman's father is her #1 guy, the model her mate will have to live up to, the one she wishes she could be if a Y chromosome snuck in somewhere. So when I heard about Sarah Shattuck's plan to blitz her father with birthday cards on his 75th birthday, I was intrigued.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kimkircher.com&amp;blog=15079428&amp;post=2835&amp;subd=kimkircher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spontaneity Rules</title>
		<link>http://kimkircher.com/2012/02/13/spontaneity-rules/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Kircher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[All things winter]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hokkaido]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[powder skiing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my husband called me from two states away just after I finished by book signing at Brighton Resort on Saturday to ask me if I had any plans "Monday through Friday," I didn't even ask what he had up his sleeve. "What do you have in mind?"

"Japan."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kimkircher.com&amp;blog=15079428&amp;post=2727&amp;subd=kimkircher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get the Girls Out</title>
		<link>http://kimkircher.com/2012/02/10/get-the-girls-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Kircher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[All things winter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crystal Mountain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skiing/Snowboarding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crystal Mountain Ski Area]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[SheJumps.org announces GET THE GIRLS OUT, a campaign to bring the community of female skiers and snowboarders together on mountains across the country, if not the world, for one day. On February 11, 2012 women all over the country will be encouraged to utilize the resource of the SheJumps community to celebrate their love for the mountain lifestyle by taking the mountain by storm with new and old friends in a safe and supportive atmosphere. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kimkircher.com&amp;blog=15079428&amp;post=2718&amp;subd=kimkircher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where Plastic Bottle Caps End Up</title>
		<link>http://kimkircher.com/2012/02/09/where-plastic-bottle-caps-end-up/</link>
		<comments>http://kimkircher.com/2012/02/09/where-plastic-bottle-caps-end-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Kircher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the Midway Atoll, halfway between America and Asia, in one of the most remote places on Earth, the Pacific Garbage Patch washes ashore. Broken bits of plastic, rubber slippers and bottle caps are strewn across the landscape. But most startling is where else they are found. In the bodies of dead albatrosses.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kimkircher.com&amp;blog=15079428&amp;post=2707&amp;subd=kimkircher&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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