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When I was lost in the cold evening on the mountain, my hands slowly chilled until I remembered I had these gloves I usually wore. I slipped them on, and, although my hands had an ice cube stuck to the inside of them, I felt nothing in them. I was still in shock. I had found something that could warm your hands, even in the coldest, coldest night and I couldn't believe it: my beloved gloves. I pictured a woman in a bed across from me in the darkness and I felt the urge to say something to her. But at that moment, the cold was too strong: I couldn't take it any longer. I started to run toward the girl on the bed as fast as I could. I tried to talk to her as if my life depended on words that came out, and then I got lost again in the woods. The woman on the bed was no longer there and I was...

Skiing was one of my first thrills. Back then, in the early 1980s, I'd never seen snow skiing. Not that I was skier-hungry as a youngster — if I had been, I would have gone skiing as much as possible at the time. And to have your heart set on one sport, which was entirely foreign to me, made it even more impressive that it seemed so consuming. After all, my parents knew not to take vacations that didn't include skiing. Now, as parents, my husband and I try to fit in lots of vacations that are skiing. Then, my family vacations included the annual ski weekend with my father and three of his best friends, a family picnic in San Francisco, and a visit to Yosemite National Park. Our family vacations were just as great — maybe even better — than most. The ski family vacation included a five-ni

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Columbia Thermarator Glove

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