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  • n  a flat rectangular area for fencing bouts
  • n  a ski run densely packed with snow

  • But if you're ready for some real off-the-beaten-piste action this year, consider our crop of less predictable ski destinations.
  • But if you're ready for some real off-the-beaten-piste action this year, consider our crop of less predictable ski destinations.
  • Where else can you snowmobile all day across some of the finest piste in the world, carve 200-year-old ice cores in a polar cave that would make Superman swoon, and relax at night .
News & Articles

  • How A Seasoned Litigator Became A Talk Show Host
    I apologize for a personal reflection. It is probably off piste, but perhaps it isn’t. People frequently ask me how did a seasoned litigator with almost a half-century of trial and appellate experience morph into a talk show host. Timothy Leary said famously, “In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a ...
    Aug. 4, 2013 - Forbes
Quotes

  • Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin in Forbes
    I felt the skis were really fast,Dalcin said. "I did a great downhill and profited from my starting position. The piste started to warm up a bit and that was to my advantage because I went earlier. But I did a great race and I have the...
  • Bode Miller in International Herald Tribune
    With the fatigue, I wouldn't have gone down this piste again,said American Bode Miller, the 2005 downhill world champion.

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