Germany has enjoyed great success in alpine skiing, although the most successful German alpine skiers have tended to be female.

The reporter wanted to know: Why do American skiers tend to perform better at the Olympics than on the World Cup circuit?

The two lines are fairy crowded in winter, but skiers tend to use other chairlifts to reach Juhyō-Kōgen.

Recreational skiers, said Beattie, tend to let their upper bodies go all over the place, trying to start turns with movements of their arms and shoulders.

Since few American teen-agers could afford a $2 lift ticket during the Depression, skiers tended to be from the upper class.

The good skiers among us tended to stay around the Weisshorn, where the runs are steeper and have more moguls.

European skiers tend to be jackholes.

"Our experience is that skiers tend to be resilient," Mr. Pitou said.

But skiers tend to be the most avid among them, possibly because their needs are so bottomless.

Still, the resort has found that visiting skiers tend to use no more than 20 percent of the resort's trails.