Exiled Years

[4aprice]

2004-2005: Pregnant
2005-2006: only managed 2 days; practically skipped
2006-2007: Pregnant

Considering I only started skiing in Jan 2004, I've missed a lot so far. But I'm trying to make up for that...

You were probably quite wise not to have skied while pregnant. My wife skied and hurt her knee quite badly of all things getting off a chairlift. Apprently muscles react differently from the norm under those conditions. A rebuilt knee later she is skiing again. Just think soon you'll get to follow your kids around the mountain and that will make up for any time missed. My kids are now at the age that they don't want ski with mom and dad any more.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[mountainman]

glad you left

as I mentioned, similar experience working as a manager at a resort; salary 90 hour work weeks, total bullchit.

Seriously, I'd rather work at Wendy's than ever work at a ski area again in management.

To be real no i'm not glad i left. I like the challange and being able to manage. The resort i worked at had no money to work with and employees to hire. Very nice small mtn. The main part i like about the ski industry is the daily challange in Mt. Ops division to make things work for the best of the customer and employee. Will something come along in the future i hope so this industry is what i do.

 

[Skier75]

Started skiing once in Jr High, didn't pick it up again until just after HS, then I skied just a little with a big brother for a few years. I had to take a hiatus from about the time I got pregnant until my daughter was about 5 yrs old when I got an opportunity to ski with the college outdoor club. From then on until I met my husband it was when I could find deals to ski cheap occasionally. Now that we're empty nestors we ski just about every weekend every year. Got to be a better skier when I was able to go more. Still have things to work on, but doesn't everybody? Well maybe not everybody, but.....

Got my daughter into skiing when she was 8 and again only when we could find deals. Started her out when she was about 12 with some used equipment from a local sporting goods store, we used to rent equipment. She took it up pretty good and has skied until she was about 20 and she got into snowboarding, now she loves snowboarding better. She'll still skis some, but prefers snowboarding.

Last year when we took my daughter, skiing(us) and snowboarding(her), she commented to us to take it easy on her! Couldn't believe my ears, coming from a 25 year old! Thought that was pretty funny! But she hadn't been out on the slopes as often as we have been and knew we had been getting better. It was fun to start and end the season with her, now unfortunately not sure when we'll be able take her again, since she is pregnant and due in late Jan/early Feb. So it will be interesting when we can get her back out on the slopes, probably next year. We pretty much worn out on the last trip

 

[Greg]

Been steadily increasing days over the years despite having kids. By spring, both my daughters will be skiing and I suspect the older one will get in 12-15 solid days in this year. Soon they will be causing my day count to increase a lot!

 

[gmcunni]

i took off several years after our first child was born. Since getting back into it I've become more addicted than i was before. Now that both kids have started skiing I'm never at a loss for an excuse to head for a hill somewhere.

 

[ski63]

I have not missed a season since I started in 1963 w/ wood skis and bear-trap bindings. A couple of years I only went once or twice and currently average 8-12 times/year.
Now that my daughter is almost out of college, I plan on pushing 20 days with a personal goal of 2 new areas/year.
BTW...my daughter is my favorite skiing buddy.

 

[billski]

Two seasons. I wish my reason was as easy or as recoverable as all the stories told before me combined. Let's just say things change as you get older. I'll leave it at that.

 

[crank]

2 different seasons for 2 different reasons.

1, When I was 19 I spent a winter ski bumming at PCMT in UT and moved to california in the spring. I ended up staying in CA for 6-7 years and the first winter I did not ski at all.

2, About 11 years later i had a problem with a herniated disc in my lower back. I did not ski that season. The next year I tried skiing ,nervous, hoping that it wouldn't hurt my back too much... Skiing actually made my back feel much better! Just seemed to loosen me up and stretch me out and I have skied from 10 - 20 days every season since then (about 20 years ago.)

 

[severine]

You were probably quite wise not to have skied while pregnant. My wife skied and hurt her knee quite badly of all things getting off a chairlift. Apprently muscles react differently from the norm under those conditions. A rebuilt knee later she is skiing again. Just think soon you'll get to follow your kids around the mountain and that will make up for any time missed. My kids are now at the age that they don't want ski with mom and dad any more.

Yes, relaxin does terrible things to joints... loosens them up to prepare for birth, but it also makes you more prone to injury. Balance is off. All those good things. I probably could have skied easy terrain, but I didn't think it was worth risking. My body aside, I was worried about getting smacked into by some yahoo on the slopes. For me, no bit of skiing is worth risking a child over. I'll get my days in, no worries there.

 

[Glenn]

Bought a house, got engaged, went back to grad school...it all just piled up. We took a trip to Manchester VT last fall. We enjoyed it so much, we booked a few days in January. We hit up Stratton and Bromley while there. I still had my old gear, my wife rented. I remember getting off the gondola at Stratton and making those first few turns. WOW! I had really missed it. But it was like I had never left. I had taught my wife to ski before our time off. She picked it right up too. It was so awesome to be back into it. We took 6-7 years off. I know, I know. But we're back into it bigtime. My wife has all her own equipment and new gear, I purchased 2 pairs of skis and new boots. We never met Mt. Snow tent sale that we didn't like. ;-)

 

[SIKSKIER]

NEVER !!!This year was 36 years in a row with a pass to Cannon.Knock on wood.

 

[deadheadskier]

NEVER !!!This year was 36 years in a row with a pass to Cannon.Knock on wood.

36 years in a row with a pass at Cannon? Wow, wonder if that might be an Alpinezone high for consecutive years at the same area with a pass

 

[frozencorn]

Few years after college when I had no $$ I only got to the hill once to a few times each year, nothing compared to the mornings and afternoons with the college Big Pass (Stowe/Sugarbush). Those were the days.

But never once to the mountain all season? Not since I was 9 (25 years).

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

36 years in a row with a pass at Cannon? Wow, wonder if that might be an Alpinezone high for consecutive years at the same area with a pass

I think so..wow..I'll never amass a figure like that..I better be somewhere different that the Blue mountain metropoloitan area by then..lol

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

36 years in a row with a pass at Cannon? Wow, wonder if that might be an Alpinezone high for consecutive years at the same area with a pass

41 at Hunter from age 6 - 47

 

[deadheadskier]

41 at Hunter from age 6 - 47

Wow, that's incredible. How long have you been a pass holder at Whiteface?

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

Wow, that's incredible. How long have you been a pass holder at Whiteface?

Since I left Hunter. This will be my 8th - 47 - 54.

 

[Lostone]

All of them! :???:
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I only tried skiing once, as a kid. A friend of my family wanted to take a couple kids skiing. They took me and another kid, from another family. I really didn't get it.

This was the long wooden skis with safety straps, and going uphill on a T-bar.I fell more going uphill than downhill. (Probably because I didn't get uphill enough to have much downhill time. :roll: )

The only thing I knew was that I couldn't afford it. That stayed with me until '79. Then, I decided to try XC skiing. But I went with a bunch of friends to Mt Snow, for a 3 day weekend. They were going downhill, and I was going XC. But we got there on Friday, just as the half day tickets were going on sale.

I figured that I'd try it for just that half day. Next day, I decided to try it again, and go downhill Sunday. Then, on Sunday, I went XC for the first half and Downhill for the afternoon.

I went about 3 more weekends that year. Then, I went 3 or four times the next year, staying in ski lodges. That reinforced the idea that I couldn't afford this. The last week of that season, we rented out a ski house from some people that had one, but ran out of money, so rented it out for a weekend to raise some funds for the final electric bills. That was the first I'd heard of ski houses, and therefore step two of being able to afford it.

Addiction was on!

 

[jaywbigred]

Started skiing when I was 12 y/o I believe (1991-92 season).

Skied 40-60 days a season during college. Man those were the days. 98-02.

Went to grad school in Ohio and only skied 1 day during 02-03 season, at Camelback, in December.

Did not ski at all 03-04 season. Mountains in Ohio never seemed worth the drive, esp. given my lack of funds. Same lack of funds, along with a plethora of family health issues, kept both myself and the family from any sort fo ski vacation.

04-05 was able to go on family ski trip again so got 5 days in.

since then, much better, I think I did 21 days in 05-06 and 28 in 07-08.

Anyway, the goal is, of course, 30+ this year, God/health willing.

 

[Marc]

Been every season since I started in the winter of 2000.