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My Father was a snow and avalanche researcher. He started the first avalanche waring program in the US which became The Colorado Avalanche Information Center. As a result I grew up on skis and skied 40+ days a year for 30 years.
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i did about 20 years of backcountry ( touring) ski , i can't do it anymore
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When I was younger, I was constantly on water ski's or downhill. I don't bounce anymore so gave it up.
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My skiing career lasted 50 yards (maybe) and cost me my left knee. All she wrote......never again. Limped all the rest of senior year in high school.
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I skied at Santa Fe a couple of times, was fun. IIRC, the parking lot was at 10,000 feet.
"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." -- Thomas Jefferson
We are all Rhodesians now.
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I grew up downhill skiing, loved it. Did a bit of water skiing and cross country skiing. Even worked at a ski resort for a season driving a snow cat grooming the slopes. Don't ski anymore.
Originally Posted by Judman PS, if you think Trump is “good” you’re way stupider than I thought! Haha
Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit.
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Yes. Lots of downhill, learned telemark when kids were young now just backcountry. Did quite a bit on the water when I was younger too.
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Yes. Lots of downhill, learned telemark when kids were young now just backcountry. Did quite a bit on the water when I was younger too. most people think backcountry is cross-country , i don't correct them
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When I was young I skied on Soft Water and I skied on Hard Water. I preferred the Soft Water because when I went down the Soft Water cushioned my fall. The Hard Water hurt when I fell and I almost twisted my leg off one time on the Hard Water.
It has been a lot of years but I would enjoy getting back up on a Soft Water Ski.
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I used to downhill some. I was decent but a long way from being competitive. I got put to shame when my boys started snowboarding. Those things are so fast and I couldn't hope to keep up with them.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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Nope. My wife enjoyed skiing the Sacramento River when we lived there and did some snow skiing with our youngest when we lived in Calgary and some at the resort (Schweitzer Resort) very close to our place in Idaho. That all ended years ago.
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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Water skied in the 1969 thru 1981. Had a friend get killed in a sking accident in 1981. He was supposed to meet us at the boat dock at 2, went out with another guy at noon. No spotter got slammed into a barge
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I love to snow ski. In fact, I largely orchestrated my life around skiing. I moved to Montana to ski, became a ski instructor and skied well in excess of 100 days a year for nearly 20 years. I don’t ski that much anymore; kids, wife, work, but I do still love it. I still teach about one day a week, in fact I was up teaching a couple from Texas today. It was a glorious day with great snow conditions and warm, sunny weather. I am almost 60, but can still ski fairly aggressively. I still love steep powder and bumps though I’m not as dynamic in the moguls as I used to be. Skiing the Northern Rockies puts me in my happy place, much like sitting on a butte glassing for antelope does.
I will live very close to skiing until I am very close to death.
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The temperature of Puget sound is about 50 degrees. I have water skied on that. A skinny boy lasts about a minute in that before swimming slows down.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
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Skied a lot 70s/80s/90s... water and snow... water skied all year, winter with wet suits., the best glass.
One weekend in the 80s we drove 4 hrs to the slopes and drove back that evening, then hit the lake the next morning... just to say we snow skied and water skied the same weekend.
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Does snowboarding and wakeboarding count?
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The way life should be.
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Wabi wades into the deep powder!
#cocainewishes #crackhodreams
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Water, snow, cross country? I've tried all but the water, I'm clumsy. Never... I could never afford a broken leg that would keep me from working.. You have been a pussie from the get go. Not a surprise...
Epstein didn't kill himself.
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Biden didn't win the election.
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Water skied a couple of times on Lake George N.Y.,i snow skied alot in the 80's when i was a young man,mostly Mt. Snow, VT. But some in N.H. Then,kids,work and life just got in the way.Now with a double knee replacememt and both feet filled with pins and screws ,cadaver bones etc. I think my ski days are over.
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