Nevah gonna be Florida, evah!

[wa-loaf]

92 Year old Maine skier:

http://bangordailynews.com/2013/01/..._EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email?src=facebook

 

[Huck_It_Baby]

My new living hero!!

Jackrabbit Johanssan takes the cake for elderly skiers but this guy is still ALIVE and chooses Maine over Fl! I love it!

 

[Huck_It_Baby]

http://laurentian.quebecheritageweb.com/article/herman-jackrabbit-smith-johannsen-1875-1987

 

[ScottySkis]

That is such a great story, thank you for posting it.

 

[Smellytele]

We all hope we can be that guy when and if we make it to 92. As I have said before I have an uncle who is now 84 maybe 85 who is still going strong.

 

[legalskier]

Dude is hardcore- score one for the old guys!

 

[Cornhead]

Very cool, I lost an 80+ yr old ski buddy last August. We met while sharing a chair four years ago. We chatted on the ride up, when we got off, she went right, I left. I had a slightly longer route back to the chair, but I did not dilly dally. I get to the chair, and here comes Anne around the other side. I thought to myself, "Either I ski like an 80 yr old lady, or that 80 yr old lady was hauling ass." I think it was a little of both. I found out her husband, an engineer at Corning Glass, had proposed to her fifty years earlier with one stipulation, she learn to ski. She said yes, and began to share her husband's passion for the sport.

She had a home in Ithaca, and a condo at Greek Peak. She skied ten runs a day, every day. One day we got 8" of the heaviest, wettest, slop possible. All of her friends skied one run, and called it a day. Anne was determined to get her daily ten runs in. She had to stop and rest several times down the hill, something she never did. Anne didn't make her ten runs, only eight, about two more than I would have done had I not been with Anne. I will miss her, she was an inspirational fire plug. When we first met, I would only have to slow down slightly to finish our runs together. The last couple years she had problems with her vision that slowed her down, and kept her from skiing on flat light days. I didn't mind waiting for her at the chair. I didn't find out about her passing until my first visit to the hill this year, a mutual friend had told me. She was in my thoughts as I skied the fresh powder that day, Anne would have loved it.

 

[Edd]

Quotes from Jack Donaghy on 30 Rock:

Have you ever been to Florida? It's a criminal population. It's America's Australia.

Why can't we just cut this state adrift and let it crash into Cuba?

​

 

[Smellytele]

Very cool, I lost an 80+ yr old ski buddy last August. We met while sharing a chair four years ago. We chatted on the ride up, when we got off, she went right, I left. I had a slightly longer route back to the chair, but I did not dilly dally. I get to the chair, and here comes Anne around the other side. I thought to myself, "Either I ski like an 80 yr old lady, or that 80 yr old lady was hauling ass." I think it was a little of both. I found out her husband, an engineer at Corning Glass, had proposed to her fifty years earlier with one stipulation, she learn to ski. She said yes, and began to share her husband's passion for the sport.

She had a home in Ithaca, and a condo at Greek Peak. She skied ten runs a day, every day. One day we got 8" of the heaviest, wettest, slop possible. All of her friends skied one run, and called it a day. Anne was determined to get her daily ten runs in. She had to stop and rest several times down the hill, something she never did. Anne didn't make her ten runs, only eight, about two more than I would have done had I not been with Anne. I will miss her, she was an inspirational fire plug. When we first met, I would only have to slow down slightly to finish our runs together. The last couple years she had problems with her vision that slowed her down, and kept her from skiing on flat light days. I didn't mind waiting for her at the chair. I didn't find out about her passing until my first visit to the hill this year, a mutual friend had told me. She was in my thoughts as I skied the fresh powder that day, Anne would have loved it.

Corn that is both inspiring and sad at the same time. May we all lead such a life.

 

[Nick]

I'm gonna write more on this later... But what a cool story. I'm gonna see if I can get in touch with him. Maybe we can get him on the forum. It said he has a smartphone and uses Facebook.

Or come to the AZ summit!

 

[Huck_It_Baby]

Very cool, I lost an 80+ yr old ski buddy last August. We met while sharing a chair four years ago. We chatted on the ride up, when we got off, she went right, I left. I had a slightly longer route back to the chair, but I did not dilly dally. I get to the chair, and here comes Anne around the other side. I thought to myself, "Either I ski like an 80 yr old lady, or that 80 yr old lady was hauling ass." I think it was a little of both. I found out her husband, an engineer at Corning Glass, had proposed to her fifty years earlier with one stipulation, she learn to ski. She said yes, and began to share her husband's passion for the sport.

She had a home in Ithaca, and a condo at Greek Peak. She skied ten runs a day, every day. One day we got 8" of the heaviest, wettest, slop possible. All of her friends skied one run, and called it a day. Anne was determined to get her daily ten runs in. She had to stop and rest several times down the hill, something she never did. Anne didn't make her ten runs, only eight, about two more than I would have done had I not been with Anne. I will miss her, she was an inspirational fire plug. When we first met, I would only have to slow down slightly to finish our runs together. The last couple years she had problems with her vision that slowed her down, and kept her from skiing on flat light days. I didn't mind waiting for her at the chair. I didn't find out about her passing until my first visit to the hill this year, a mutual friend had told me. She was in my thoughts as I skied the fresh powder that day, Anne would have loved it.

Amazing! I love hearing about people like Anne. Thanks for sharing this one! Sorry for the loss of your friend.

 

[riverc0il]

I like how that clip ends, how he is saying how much he loves Maine, and then just the silence that follows... cool.

 

[andyzee]

Very cool,

 

[bdfreetuna]

Ed seems like a really cool guy. Great story!

 

[kingslug]

You should see the older racers that show up at Hunter on Mondays..these guys are fast..saw one guy last week, no helmet, just sun glasses whipping down every run faster than I want to go..then again he's probably been skiing longer than I've been alive.

check out this guy:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oIG3RXOt4k

 

[Nick]

I reached out to Ed on Facebook. We'll see if he responds. I also pointed him to this thread (haha).

I'm inspired by this story. My dad passed away over 5 years ago now and he taught me the love of skiing. If he were still alive, I know for a fact he would be skiing until the day he died.

A couple years ago, I went down to Rhode Island at East Beach, near Ninigret pond, with my wife. My dad used to windsurf at Ninigret all the time. When I was down there, I saw an elderly man getting his windsurfer setup. We got to chatting and he told me he was 83 years old. I mentioned my dad used to windsurf, and would drive down with his 1972 Porsche 914 (which i later inherited and burned to the ground at the end of my driveway). The guy remembered my dad and his car. I remember thinking, I want to be windsurfing and skiing and all that when I'm in the later years of my life.

Cornhead, that's a great story as well. I think we all aspire to just be out enjoying life until the very end. One of the reasons I am very glad I was raised as a family who was very active. My wife is (was) a 2nd grade schoolteacher and she couldn't believe how many families would just sit in the house all weekend and not do anything... the dad would play video games or the mom would be on the phone and the kid would just sit around and watch TV or movies, all weekend. Bleh. Not the life for me. Although I am on the computer a lot haha.

 

[Cornhead]

You should see the older racers that show up at Hunter on Mondays..these guys are fast..saw one guy last week, no helmet, just sun glasses whipping down every run faster than I want to go..then again he's probably been skiing longer than I've been alive.

check out this guy:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oIG3RXOt4k

I didn't know Tony Clifton was a skier.

 

[ScottySkis]

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I didn't know Tony Clifton was a skier.

I like his friends.

 

[deadheadskier]

check out this guy:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oIG3RXOt4k

Nice mask he's got. wonder if it keeps him warm :lol:

 

[Cornhead]

I like his friends.

Me too, that's why I picked that pic.:wink: