slo’s FRIDAY 2/7 poll - Skiing ⛷️❄️

[TiggerTrigger]

It's funny...I grew up with real winter and only went skiing/snowboarding a couple of times. I hated it. Cross country is OK, but I could never get enough control trying downhill to feel safe enough to enjoy. DH, who spent most of his time growing up in TX, went skiing a lot as a kid and went on annual ski trips when we first started dating. We've gone skiing as a family a couple of times, but I just hang out at the bottom sporting some kind of apres ski look (not that I did anything to make it "apres" ) and sip the day away on slope side cocktails. Every now and then, I'll throw on my ski pants and take a gondola up if there are places to eat and drink at the top or mid area. There was also that time in Mammoth where I was taking photos and ski patrol invited me into facilities so I could get better views from the top.

 

[Meriweather]

Never tried it. Never wanted to.
My DH skiied when he was a teenager and then again when our son was in Boy Scouts.
DS skied a lot when he was young.

 

[disney212]

I hate cold weather so it was a 1 time thing for me. I do excel at sitting by the lodge fireplace sipping an adult beverage.

 

[NYCgrrl]

When I first moved to Zurich, friends assured me it s only a hill we would ski on since they knew I’d never Alpine ski before.
Yeah, well their idea of a hill differs greatly from mine; we reverted to x country quick, fast and in a hurry

 

[kdonnel]

My wife and I both love skiing, I am more aggressive, she more timid in our styles.

But we never skied enough to have confidence in skiing as we got older.

There was a time in our 40's where we sat mid mountain at Alta enjoying a well deserved lunch as a couple in their 70's or 80's came in for their lunch. We hoped that would be us one day.

But now I don't think we gained enough skill in our youth to commit to paying for a ski vacation now. The risk of injury is too high.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Back in the mid/late 60's, I did some downhill skiing at local ski resorts in Wisconsin, mostly Alpine Valley (new at the time) for about 4 years or so.

This is a paragraph from a thread from last year about the end of my skiing 'career'....


In 1966, a young lady, Marie, a recent business school graduate, started at the same company in one of the corporate departments. I did take notice of her, as I delivered mail, etc. to her area, or as she came to the mailroom to drop off things that had to be redistributed within the headquarters or mailed out. We used to chit-chat a bit, small talk.

In January of 1968 (this date is important to my story), there was going to be a company ski trip up in neighboring Wisconsin. This was not an overnight event. I had recently taken up a bit of skiing in the previous and current years and thought this would be an opportune time to ask Marie for a first date. Kind of low key, other familiar people around, etc. Well, I asked her at work if I could call her in the evening to ask her something. Amazingly, she gave me her home phone number and said I could call. (I think that is the way that part worked, after all, that was 56 years ago, memory gets fuzzy). Anyway, I did call her and talked a bit and then asked about taking her on the ski trip. Well, the answer was a quick, no. She said she did not ski and was not about to learn how to ski. Now, I did find out, later down the road, that Marie had given herself a workplace policy of not dating people from within the company. Too many horror stories of things going wrong and the subsequent fallout at work.


Full story...

Post in thread 'Spouse/SO'

Jan 17, 2024

As a friend of ours, Jason (low-key), might say, long post.....



I would say, at its earliest, it all started back in 1964, when as a 20-year-old, I started work at a mid-sized Fortune 500 company, located in suburban Chicago. I was hired as one of about fifteen mail messengers to deliver mail, packages, etc. within the corporate offices. Over the course of the next 5 years, I worked my way up as the manager of the mail department.

In 1966, a young lady, Marie, a recent business school graduate, started at the same company in one of the corporate departments. I did take notice...

• Dan Murphy

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As it turned out, I never skied again. Nothing Marie said or did, she was fine if I did, I just never went skiing again. And I'm not about to take it up again now.

 

[lovesmurfs]

Other. Once, during a Girl Scout trip to the Poconos. I took one lesson, went down the bunny hill once, and then went inside. Never had the desire before or since.

 

[disneychrista]

Never snow skied.

I have water skied a handful of times as a teenager.

 

[SM1992]

Wife and I skied alot when we were younger, we actually owned a timeshare at the base of Cranmore mt. in New Hampshire. We haven't skied in about 7 years, we're getting a little to old and it's getting too expensive.

 

[BayouQueen]

Love to downhill ski. I started at about age 12. I'm advanced intermediate -- will never be "expert" because I'm cautious. Although I have been down expert slopes.
DH is an expert skier. He's really good. It's a nice sport that family can enjoy together. Spendy, though -- and more so all the time.

 

[monsterkitty]

I started skiing in 5th grade. In high school I was on the National Junior Ski Patrol, and I also raced. In college I started teaching ski lessons because it paid, and the ski patrol was volunteer and non-paying. My senior year in college I broke my left ankle and tore every tendon and ligament while starting the lawn mower (I'm talented) so I had to skip a few seasons of skiing. Meanwhile, the owner sold the ski area I worked at, and the new owner made drastic changes and everyone left.

I've only skied a handful of times since then. It's really hard to pay for lift tickets when not only did I used to get free tickets at most ski areas in Colorado, but I also got paid to ski. Now it's too ridiculously expensive.

 

[CynBeth]

I have never been. I would probably fall and break something.

 

[jeepwreck]

love it been doing it my whole life
I am in BC, Canada so i have many mountains to choose from to go skiing at

 

[Lumpy1106]

I leave for Kelowna in the morning to go snowboarding in Big White for a week. It was my biggest passion before kids.

 

[tvguy]

Never have skied as an adult because I never skied as a child.
I never skied as a child for two reasons:
1) My mom was from Canada and moved to California to get out of the snow and didn't understand why people would PAY to be in the snow.
2) My mom was an RN specializing in Orthopedic Surgery. She spend a lot of her working time in the winter working on surgeries to repair skiing injuries that she felt were unnecessary. She felt a blown out knee on a 25 year old hurt skiing was making 70 year olds who needed hip replacement surgery wait, and the hip replacement was a necessary procedure.

 

[robinb]

I have skied both downhill and cross country. I don't enjoy either.

Interestingly enough, my DD25 is a ski instructor at Breckenridge Resort in Colorado .

 

[citruscurtis]

....so the army recruiter counselor asked what I wanted from the army and I said downhill skiing ...6 months later I am skiing... every night and all weekend at the USMA private downhill skiing slope.... so yeah...a different twist on Club Meditalry

 

[E&Cmom]

I have gone skiing as a child and teen but not since.

 

[Karalee402]

I've never been skiing at all, but my son's middle school offers a ski club, and he's actually on the bus headed to the slopes now! We don't live in an area with tons of snow, but they take a bus full of middle schoolers (God bless that driver!) about an hour and a half north to a ski club that makes their own snow. My son has fallen in love with it, and I love it for him!

 

[georgina]

I've skied a handful of times. Dated a guy from NH in college and took some lessons. (Relationship didn't last!) While I was working in my mid-20's I would go occasionally after work with some co-workers (discount Tuesdays). I was fairly athletic and did OK, not crazy about the cold though.