What age did you start skiing or riding?

[Tyrolean_skier]

Originally Posted by Bob R

Good to see you here TY. We started skiing more once the kids were old enough and bought a place similar roads. Folks this lady is a fanatic.

Came over to check it out since KillingtonZone is not responding too well right now. Moderators are looking into the problem. Where you referring to me when you said "Folks this lady is a fanatic". If so, that is quite accurate. I love to ski and do it as much as I possibly can. When my kids are old enough, we plan on taking some trips out West and maybe some trips to Europe and South America (in the summer)

[smootharc]

.....first skied inside my mommy's tummy, so I understand. Once out, I understand it was just shy of three or so, according to family yore. Under the spotlights on the backyard hill. Remember those big, fat flakes coming out of the darkness and hitting my face as I tried to catch them on my tongue.

Come to think of it, life's been a journey to get back to catching snowflakes on my tongue....

Where did it all go wrong......

[Sparky]

I couldn't get into skiing until I was in my mid 30s. i was donig the fun stuff, like dealing with a 100 year old house, little kids lack of funds, all the usuall reasons. I wish my family did ski so I could have started in my youth. Oh well.

[NHpowderhound]

13 years old for ole' NHPH at Moose Mountain, NH. I went with a youth group and two of the older kids said they would show me how to ski. They took me to the top, said "this is how you turn,bye!" and left me at the top fearing for my life! I bet I fell 100+ times by the time I was halfway down Mooses' 1000' vert. I took my skis off and swore to doG I would never ski again. It was a sport for people that liked pain.
But with about 250' left, I put my skis on, and was transformed into ((*NHPH*)). I never fell again for the rest of the day and was addicted. The following year I skied 30+ days and have been doing so for the last 23 years. OMG,am I getting old?
((*
*))NHPH

[SUGARBOWL]

Black Mountain, I believe I was 8 or 9, circa 1974. Dad rented oldest bro. & myself ski's put us on lifts, waited all day at the bottom. Went once or twice a year for the next ten, then started dating my wife and we bought our own equipment and picked up the pace.

Went on our Honeymoon to Lake Tahoe in January 1990, during which what was called the worst snow drought in twenty years. Heavenly was ok. big difference from eastern skiing, but then ventured North one day, passed by Squaw which was mostly closed. Came upon an older, uncrowded, vast expanse of white at Donner Summit called the Sugarbowl.

That felt like my first time skiing all over again.

[tirolerpeter]

I started in 1949 at age three on a set of wooden boards with leather straps. I was born in and lived in a refugee camp in the Austrian a
Alps right after WWII. My cousin made the skiis for me and literally carried me up the the slopes from the base of the mountain where the camp was located. At age five we came to the USA and then I didn't get a chance to ski again until I was a teen. I have been skiing ever since and now just sort of suffer through the summers. Now that I am retired, I indulge myself in mid-week skiing and I am moving to Salt Lake City next spring or summer so that I don't have to travel more than 30 minutes to about seven great mountains!

[Lostone]

I first tried it at 17. A friend of the family wanted to go skiing and wanted to take a couple kids. They took me from our family and another from the school, but I didn't know him.

Back then you chose your ski length by reaching up and they gave you skis that reached the bottom of your fully extedned hand.

They had straps that tied to your ankles, so that if you fell down they followed behind and beat you up for having the audacity to obey the law of gravity.

They had J bars and T bars on the bunny slope, so I fell going up as much or more than going down.

I didn't get it.



Then, when I was 29, I got tired of hearing myself complain about whining about winter. I decided that I had to get into winter or get out of New England, as there was a real good chance that we would have winter every year. I decided to try cross country. That was'79. There was no snow in '79.

I hooked up woth a group from work. They were going to Mt Snow to go downhill. I went to do some cross country around there.

We got there early in the afternoon and were not able to check in until around 2. Everyone else wanted to get a half day ticket.

I figured I'd try downhill for the afternoon and go downhill the next two days. The next day, I decided to go downhill on Saturday and XC on Sunday. On Sunday, I decided to go XC in the morning and downhill in the afternoon.

I went back to Mass and bought a full set of downhill equipment.

[snowsprite]

Tirolerpeter, you had a really interesting start there. Amazing!

Sprite

[dmc]

Originally Posted by snowspritect

Tirolerpeter, you had a really interesting start there. Amazing!

Sprite

yeaj... that pretty much takes the cake...

[Bob R]

Ty I was talking about you as "that lady is a fanatic." About as much praise as I give out.