Ted Heck

A First Trip to Chile

By Ted Heck It had been a half-century dream of mine to ski in Chile, where seasons are reversed. But was summer skiing here worth the wait, I wondered apprehensively, as we corksc

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The Swiss Side of Portes Du Soleil

By Ted Heck When Switzerland Tourism suggested I visit their portion of the world’s largest “international” ski domain, it was an easy sell. I knew the French side after seve

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French Villages Salute Their Liberators

We waved back as President Chirac of France led the parade from the Arc de Triomphe down the Champs Elysees to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Victory in Europe. Thousands of F

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World War II Bred Skiers

By Ted Heck During the countdown to Christmas of 2004 the media devoted much space and time to the 60th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge. They called it the final German of

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Great Swiss Train Rides

Great Swiss Train Rides 1. The Captivating North Shore of Lake Geneva 2. Along The Rhone and Rhine By Ted Heck The Captivating North Shore of Lake Geneva Lake Geneva is liste

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Spotlight On Meiringen

By Ted Heck Elementary, my dear Watson. There are clues everywhere to point out that Meiringen in the Bernese Oberland canton of Switzerland is a noteworthy ski destination. Sherlo

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Arizona Rocks Beautiful Formations in Northern Arizona

By Ted Heck Lake Powell in northern Arizona and southern Utah is a man-made lake behind Glen Canyon dam, enclosed by stunning rock formations, with 63 canyons and more nooks and cr

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Austria’s World Tourism Games Draws Big Crowd

By Ted Heck One of the best examples of all the sports fun you can have in the Alps in summer time was the World Tourism Games sponsored by the Austrian National Tourist Office in

A bonus for Connie….The Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island

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Former Steelworker Saddened on Lake Superior

By Ted Heck The ferry boat had just risen 21 feet in the locks at Sault Ste. Marie in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, as we passed from Lake Huron to higher and larger Lake Superior.

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Remembering Skier Gerald Ford

By Ted Heck Gerald Ford, the skiing president, left quite a legacy and the lasting image of a nice guy. In obituaries that flooded the news Gerald Ford was remembered often for rep

The Colorful Shambles was the Street of Many Butcher Shops Five Centuries Ago

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The York of Yore

By Ted Heck We Americans can boast with equanimity about our English heritage that was recently celebrated with the 400th anniversary of the settling of Jamestown. Citizens of the

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The Edifices of Edinburgh

By Ted Heck It had been 62 years since I first visited Edinburgh. The Scottish capital had gotten younger, with more spiked hair, face jewelry and tight jeans on the streets than w

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Bed and Breakfast and Beyond Smiling Service in the English Countryside

By Ted Heck Richard Stewart of Keswick, a charming village in England’s famed Lake District, is more gregarious than a gaggle of geese. He has the right temperament to be host of

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Switzerland Revisited

By Ted Heck Connie and I spent two weeks in Switzerland this spring, where I spent a couple of days on the slopes of Meiringen and a week in the gigantic Jungfrau Region. It was a

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The White Jump Suit

By Ted Heck Here glides the bride, all dressed in white. Liz Langsfeld is being escorted down the slope by her father Mickey. Smiling midway on the slope is her soon-to-be-husband

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What Would Avery Brundage Say?

By Ted Heck The Olympics in China are about to distract me from nightly fixes of Law and Order and print media is awash with more information about athletes than I can absorb. NBA

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Skiing Along the Nile

By Ted Heck Reprinted from Harrisburg Patriot News Tutankhamun did not ski and probably never saw snow, according to Achmed, our guide during a recent trip to Egypt. Teenage King T

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Cézanne’s Mountain Revisited

By Ted Heck It was a lot more comfortable seeing paintings of Mont St. Victoire this time than when I first saw the real thing 64 years ago. This time it was in a special exhibitio

A Heck of a gang. Front: Adam and Doug Rear: Jim, Bill, Ted and Todd on Spicheren Heights

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Fighting World War II with Family

Southern California 25, Tennessee 0. This summer I finally learned the score of the 1945 Rose Bowl. My nephew Doug plugged in his laptop and Googled the result as we sat in a resta

Seals basking in the sun are popular with tourists

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San Diego…Sea and See Worthy

By Ted Heck It took me only 88 years and $3,000 to get from Philadelphia to San Diego. Long ago I wanted to visit the seaport in Southern California, after watching movies of World

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Homily

Download the Homily *Ted Heck, a decorated combat veteran of World War II, was chosen to deliver this homily during the memorial service at a reunion of the 70th Infantry Division.

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Phone Tapping in Germany

Tea Party members or Obama fans are focused on the hubbub surrounding the National Security Agency’s world-wide phone tapping. When I first learned how disturbed German Chancello

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Longtime Snow Journalist Ted Heck Receives Prestigious Award by Karen Lorentz

By Karen Lorentz Ted Heck has easily lived nine lives. One of them is as ski writer for 60-plus years, another as a skier of 68 years. All this in addition to a stint in the army,

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70th Veteran Receives Legion of Honor Medal

Ted Heck, a decorated platoon leader and company commander in World War II, recently collected another medal 70 years after the action. In a ceremony in the Embassy of France in W

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Renditions

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A World Famous Resort with No Americans? Impossible!

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Adventure Andorra

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By Bob Enzel But at this moment I’m now in...

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