What age did you start skiing or riding?

[ALLSKIING]

I started around 10 years old. From 91 to 94 I only skied 1 time due to living im Miami.

 

[teachski]

I started on my 5th birthday.

 

[Sky]

I started when I was about 23. I was staioned in northern Italy for three years and started learned then. Took about 12 years off due to living in Kentucky and having very small kids....and running the basketball programs they were in (in town).

Then #2 son wanted to join the school's program. That was about 14 years ago. I chaperoned and skied six tiems a year with him for about 5 years on that antique gear from Italy.

I've really started working at getting better in the past four or five seasons. Now, it's never far from my thoughts.

 

[loafer89]

I started when I was 11 years old in 1982. In July, 1985 my parents put me in summer ski camp, and I was forced to spend my time in Europe glacier skiing :lol:

 

[riverc0il]

3 or 4 i believe. one of my first memories

 

[hammer]

I started when I was almost 39.

After living in New England on and off for about 20 years, I finally decided that I needed a good winter activity.

 

[Greg]

I started during my junior year in college at age 20. My roommate (Joe) had been trying to get me to try skiing for some time. I woke up one snowy morning and said to him, "let's go skiing today." We took off to Mount Southington. During that first visit he took me to the top of a black diamond there (pretty lame slope actually, but it looked like a cliff to me at the time). After surviving that run and looking back up and thinking to myself, "I did that?", I was hooked.

I skied one more time at Southington that season and went and bought brand new skis, boots, poles and clothing that summer. We hit Mount Snow and Haystack many times over the next few seasons. College students could get $25 lift tickets on weekends then.

I'm going to try to get my daughter on skis next spring. Probably nothing serious - maybe just plastic skis in the yard. For the 2006-07 season, look out. Ski school will be the norm for her. I really hope she takes to it and truly enjoys it.

 

[andyzee]

Late bloomer here, 44. But doin my best to catch up

 

[ChileMass]

I'm pretty sure it was the winter after I turned 8.

I've told this story here before - my buddy's Mom was a skier and dragged us up the steep hill across the street from my house and made us ski down it to try to convince us skiing it was more fun than sledding on it. Don't know that she won that argument that day, but I have been skiing since - 37 years.

 

[sledhaulingmedic]

I started late, at age 8. (After my folks moved to Nah Hampshah from the Midwest.)

 

[deadheadskier]

seven years old and its been 22 great seasons and counting since that time.

It truly was a life transforming decision - not just for me personally, but really my entire family. Who would've guessed that an after school program at Ward Hill would contribute so greatly to the person I am today, the career I've chosen and most importantly probably the single greatest influence as to why my parents are still happily married after 40 years together.

The following winter after I did the after school program, I introduced my parents and older brother to the sport. It rapidly became our family's past time and not just the immediate family - all my aunts, uncles, cousins etc, picked it up.

At that time, my father was an investment banker who worked long hours and on the weekends, the family did very little together prior to picking up skiing, especially during the winter time. That all changed when my folks picked up the sport. As the saying goes, a family that plays together, stays together. I truly believe that and I can easily see my folks relationship not being as wonderful as it is today had they not learned to ski and had all the wonderful experiences together on snow that the sport has provided us.

I couldn't imagine life without skiing and should I have a family someday myself, we will be a skiing family.

 

[hammer]

I'm going to try to get my daughter on skis next spring. Probably nothing serious - maybe just plastic skis in the yard. For the 2006-07 season, look out. Ski school will be the norm for her. I really hope she takes to it and truly enjoys it.

That sounds like a good plan -- I wish that I had been able to get my kids started earlier than they did...

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

I started when I was 6. My father and uncle were part time instructors at Hunter. Our families had a house together there. We were there every weekend and school vacations. We have great memories from those days.

 

[Vortex]

I started at 5 years old. Northland Wooden skies and snow boots. My 1st lesson the instructor said you need ski boots so we went and bought them. My daughter at 3 and my son at 5. Go for it Greg.

 

[pizza]

Either 19, 20, or 21..
You would think I'd remember.

 

[loafer89]

I started out my son just short of his second birthday, with his first lesson at Mohawk Mnt. He has progressed alot since taking lessons at Killington and Sugarloaf. Since my wife does not ski, I now have someone to enjoy skiing with and it's fun to watch his skills steadily improve.

 

[ctenidae]

5 or 6, on family trips twice a year to Colorado and New Mexico. We stopped going when I was probably 11, didn't start back until I was 30. Living in far eastern North Carolina wasn't conducive to a skiing habit...

 

[dmc]

About 14... Only went once at a small area in Ohio..
Didn't ski again until I was 19 and skiing in te Pocono's..
Really got into it when I was in my early 20's when I started going to Hunter...

 

[RISkier]

49

 

[thetrailboss]

I started at the tender age of nine years old and boy was I stubborn. I 'fell in love' with the sport at about 11 or 12 and didn't really get good until about 18 or 19.