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ever been snow or water skiing?
ever been snow or water skiing?
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Hello hardheaded liberal and welcome!
Yep I used to go snow skiing a lot when I lived in Germany. Today however, I would look like Sasquatch rolling down the mountain. Water skied once and it took me all day to learn to stand up.
On the poll I learned during winter sports that I preferred Glögg or Glühwein (hot mulled wine) to stay warm. Plus it made falling down not hurt as much.
A yeti! Thanks for the chuckle, Family Man.
Big shame if you don’t where I come from.
Lazy water skier:
hi ask, is that you in both pics?
Hey Manny,
No, the top one is ‘borrowed’ – though I’ve skied in terrain like that many times in younger years.
The bottom one I took at the cabin summer 2006 – a sub-surface foil/ski holds the contraption up.
Neither, but I’ve been trying to learn how to snowboard for the last couple of winters. I’m just far too cool to snow and/or water ski. 😉
ah yes, I remember the wax comment from a couple of weeks ago. I’m reading that you’re getting some of the white stuff, so hopefully you and the b2 family can get out for some fun
I went snow skiing a few times when I worked at a ski resort in Colorado. We used to drink heavily while working and then put on skis and take the chair lift up to the top of the mountain and none of us really knew how to ski. I found out that skiing isn’t the hard part….stopping is. Fortunately there were trees to help me out. I was lucky that I didn’t pull a Sonny Bono.
Scary! At least we’ve still “got you, babe”
Yes, any kind of skiing – great fun and well worth the effort to learn.
About those trees, it helps to be hard-headed. I’m proud to say that the only black eye I’ve had in my life came from a tree.
glugg – yech! Hot brandy with lemon – pure comfort.
Welcome newbies and lurkers. I could list dozens of y’all that I miss very much.
hi, Alice! I was going through some archives the other day and was missing a bunch of folks, too. Hope you’re doing well
I used to go to a boarding school in Vermont and we had our own little bunny slope with a rope lift. As a result, I got to snow ski quite a few times. It was a blast. I never got to go back, though, as it’s just too darn expensive. KamaKid’s going to a ski resort town in Idaho (Sun Valley) and I’m hoping she gets a chance to ski herself.
The one chance I had at water skiing was at my uncle’s in Las Vegas. He took my brothers and I out on his boat for a day of water skiing. However, just as it was my turn to try it, the boat broke down. No fair!!! :<(
I went cross-country skiing once. It was a full moon and a fresh snow. It was magical indeed. Still, the thrill of hurtling oneself down a mountain side is hard to beat.
I’m shocked that you’d be a daredevil on the slopes 😉
Sun Valley sounds like a lot of fun. Idaho is one state I haven’t marked off on the ‘been there’ list but here that there is a lot to appreciate in the form of natural beauty.
(waves at shirl if she’s lurking)
both, plus a bit of sno-boarding, xc, and sno-shoeing, glacading.
tho l will say that a few decadences + of downhill skiing was very detrimental to the health of my knees…which are pretty much shot…alas, no more of that.
lTMF’sA
dada, you’re in Colorado ski country, right? Anywhere near Bayfield? I actually own a lot there. (a long story for another time.)
yep…based in boulder. bayfield’s way down in the sw part of the state near pagosa spgs and durango.
good skiing…oops, snow boarding…at wolf creek, and they usually get a shit load of snow, and telluride’s not that far, nor is taos…both steep and deep, definitely not recommended for anyone below advanced intermediate/expert skiers/boarders.
really a beautiful part of the state when you get into the higher elevations.
don’t sell.
lTMF’sA
We loved Durango, that’s how we came to buy in the much cheaper Bayfield.
that train ride through Durango is amazing.
I lived a couple miles from and worked at this place one winter. We used to joke that the only thing we could afford to do was ski.
hi, CG! I haven’t been to Tahoe yet but have an invitation to join my aunt and her partner up there next summer. We’ll probably be doing the rough-it type camping so hopefully I won’t have to amass a small fortune to survive 🙂
Snow and water are for admiring from someplace nice and comfy, not for sliding on.
As for the drink, I don’t do coffee and I don’t do liquor, but I wouldn’t turn down an offer of either mulled cider or hot chocolate. Both sound pretty good on a snowy day with some toast and a nice source of heat nearby. (Not that it’s snowing here, but if it was, they would.)
hi Omir! That’s pretty much my take on it, too. I’m so awkward on regular tierra that I can’t imagine trying to keep balanced on long sticks of wood while trying to avoid the variety that grows out of the ground. As for water, I’m a decent swimmer but would rather fish if I’m at a lake.
How could you forget Hot Tea (with lots of honey)?! Besides, it’s summer here and a cool beer is a much better choice.
Snow skiing, I was a natural, but I haven’t done it in over two decades and I might not be that good at it any more.
Water skiing, I never got the hang of it.
I’ve already picked up and unloaded hay and moved two gates this Thursday morning. Next I’ll start hooking up the new water lines that we laid before our vacation, after I return the rented trailer.
What all have you been up to?
I last water-skied in 1963. There were water moccasins over by the ski area at camp which for some reason gave me a bad attitude toward the activity.
I’ve done cross-country, no downhill — it just strikes me as a really bad hobby for a highly skilled klutz.
I hope Family Man doesn’t see this. Water moccasins would definitely keep me safely away from the lake. Cross-country sounds fun, though I’d have to do a bit of traveling to partake. Dodging cactus and javalina just doesn’t hold the same luster 🙂
so did lots of waterskiing. Not a snow person so only snow skied a couple times. Now love wakeboarding. Very fun and you use every muscle of your body so a good work out.
Hi Nancy! Wakeboarding sounds like fun. The slacker that I am, though, would probably lobby for an innertube so someone else can cart me around the lake while I sit there 🙂