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Where My Skis Have Taken Me
From wooden skis and leather boots in 1962 to one of my best seasons ever in 2023, I’ve been fortunate to have many great memories on snow, with friends and family.
What’s In My Brain These Days
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Back in the 1980s at Mount Spokane
Mount Spokane Ski area was more than a little different in the 1980s and early ’90s than it is today. During that time, the skiing terrain was minimally maintained beyond nightly grooming of the major runs and a little brush cutting. The area between chairs 1 and 2 were still fairly open meadows, and it was easy…
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Adventures in Denmark
When my 1979 tour of European and British industry sites ended in London, I took a vacation and first traveled to Denmark with John and Bob Tenold to visit friends of theirs, Heidi and Magnus. I forget their last name. Magnus was an executive at SAS Airlines that John had met through Rotary. John and Bob stayed with…
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Premature Zipper Failure
I’m sitting here in the late evening silence feeling somewhat guilty. I may have committed a grievous sin today. Sometime ago I wrote on my blog about wearing Levi’s jeans since early in the 1950s. I have been loyal to that brand without waver until today. They have supported me through thick and thin even in…
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What a Spoil Sport
Sometime in the 1990s when I was still a ski instructor at Mount Spokane, I was assigned what may have been my most fun class. Standing in front of me one Saturday morning were seven or eight very eager eight-, nine-, and ten-year-old boys and girls. As I normally did, I first took them up the…
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About Me
I’m Ken—a woodworker, skier, dad/grandpa, and small business owner of The Design Factory.
Raised in Portland, Oregon, I’ve spent the last 50 years living and working in Spokane Valley, Washington. Over the years I’ve collected many interesting experiences, memories, life observations, and more than a few piles of sawdust.
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