The skiing off-season can be a bummer for the avid skier dying to be on the slopes once again, however, now is the perfect time to find some great steals on equipment and lift tickets in advance of the 2011-12 Winter.

As a journalist covering the Vancouver Olympics, my sole focus centered on headlines made by athletes through their achievement in competition.

To me, the Olympics are about Sidney Crosby, gold medals, fastest times and country pride – there is no room for uniforms in my Olympic equation. I’m simply not interested in the correlating couture.