How'd you select your username?

[bvibert]

Originally Posted by teachski

My website address probably should have been ALBAS.com for A Look Back At Skiing, though.

If it makes you feel better, that domain has been owned by a guy in Canada since 1998

[TenPeaks]

I don't get to hike as often as I'd like so when I was completing the NH 48 4,000 footer list I set a goal to hike 10 peaks a year. That way I'd be done in 5 years.

Now that I'm done with that list, I just try to get out and hike any old 10 peaks a year. Every year I exceed that goal.

[Max]

Nickname...nice to avoid the confusion between me and Dad (Jr vs Sr).

I combined it with Max Power when Homer Simpson declared he was changing his name ("Got it off a hair dryer") and started using it in my email addy.

[cbcbd]

Originally Posted by Max

I combined it with Max Power when Homer Simpson declared he was changing his name ("Got it off a hair dryer") and started using it in my email addy.

"Max Power, he's the man whose name you'd love to touch! But you mustn't touch!"
classic

[skijay]

Since my dad's side of the family is from the Northeast Kingdom & Townships (Canada), I spent a lot of time at my grandmother's house in Derby Line (VT). I spent almost all of my summers until I was 17 up there and then from 18 to 21 a few weeks each summer.

There is not a lot to do up there and when I got my driver's license I did a lot of driving. I used to go to Jay at least twice a week and used the pool. I have been on that tram many, many times during the summer. I have always been infatuated with Jay Peak even as a little kid as I used to love it when my parents took me there. I have skied there several times, although not as much as I used to. From my aunt's old house in Newport, you can see Jay & back of Owl's Head.

I picked skijay because I love to ski and I love Jay Peak. skijaypeak sounds like an ad, so it is just skijay.

[tirolerpeter]

My cousin and I have exactly the same names (first and last). So, since he was born and lived in Salzburg Austria, and I was born in the province of Tirol, Austria, they referred to him as "Salzburger Peter" and to me as "Tiroler Peter."

[NHpowderhound]

NHpowderhound is 'cause I'm from Texas, I own a baby powder factory and my sons mother is a female dog.
Ye-haw!
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[highpeaksdrifter]

Originally Posted by NHpowderhound

NHpowderhound is 'cause I'm from Texas, I own a baby powder factory and my sons mother is a female dog.
Ye-haw!
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*))NHPH

Good one hound.

[bvibert]

Originally Posted by NHpowderhound

NHpowderhound is 'cause I'm from Texas, I own a baby powder factory and my sons mother is a female dog.
Ye-haw!
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*))NHPH

Thats exactly what I thought your name meant!

[uphillklimber]

When I first got on the internet, I was getting into hiking quite a bit. But I found my knees gave me so much trouble going downhill, that I found I really enjoyed uphill klimbing. I could literally ascend a hill faster than I could descend it. I changed the spelling to avoid having to use uphillclimber#4305 or some such number. Also, it was a bit of a concession that my whole life was a bit of an uphill klimb, never seeming to get over.

Things, however, have changed. I have worked on my leg muscles so I may descend with ease. I took up a form of exercise we all enjoy. I think it's called skiing! Actually, I visited a doctor, learned plenty, did specific exercises, pay attention to how I step and klimb. Oh yeah, life is good now, very good. I don't have an uphillklimb now, but the name is distinctive, so I kept it, and you may locate me anywhere I post with that name and spelling.