What is your skiing history?

[da-bum]

My wife didn't start skiing until we met in college, she saw how I was about it (explaining why I had to cancel on her to drive to VT for a pow day) and started. She always says she regrets not skiing as a kid...long winters in CNY with nothing to do and she loves it now.

I was the exact opposite of that with my wife. She started when she was a young teenager when she would go on ski vacations with her family, while I started in college when a bunch of guys decided to try it for kicks. It seems like they go because its a vacation makes then treat it more as a vacation vs go (and continue to go) because its thrilling. Thats why when we started going together, she wanted a ski-in/ski-out condo w/spa facility, while any place with a bed was fine with me (we all slept in a van when there were no vacancies nearby).

I had once called her at home in the middle of the night while I was upstate and my license got taken away along with my car getting impounded (nobody else in my group had a license to drive the car). I guess the girl you hang out with in the college dorms is a completely different person when they are at home. They don't just pick up their stuff and leave home in the middle of the night and drive for a hundred miles just to get your car out of the pound so you can continue driving again w/o a license. I had to call a friend who was a bit further away and do the 5 hour r/t drive. He didn't even want to hang out for a day of skiing, but I still had to give him a load of money for gas and tolls, thats on top of the loads of money to get my car out of the lot and the tickets I had to pay.

 

[Harvey]

I was the exact opposite of that with my wife. She started when she was a young teenager when she would go on ski vacations with her family, while I started in college when a bunch of guys decided to try it for kicks. It seems like they go because its a vacation makes then treat it more as a vacation vs go (and continue to go) because its thrilling. Thats why when we started going together, she wanted a ski-in/ski-out condo w/spa facility, while any place with a bed was fine with me (we all slept in a van when there were no vacancies nearby).

I had once called her at home in the middle of the night while I was upstate and my license got taken away along with my car getting impounded (nobody else in my group had a license to drive the car). I guess the girl you hang out with in the college dorms is a completely different person when they are at home. They don't just pick up their stuff and leave home in the middle of the night and drive for a hundred miles just to get your car out of the pound so you can continue driving again w/o a license. I had to call a friend who was a bit further away and do the 5 hour r/t drive. He didn't even want to hang out for a day of skiing, but I still had to give him a load of money for gas and tolls, thats on top of the loads of money to get my car out of the lot and the tickets I had to pay.

Um... more details please!

 

[Ripitz]

I took the kids to the local hill as soon as they could carry their own stuff.

This is the first rule of skiing. Carry your own gear. It should never be broken. This is Peanut at the Belle when she was 16 months old

 

[TheGreatAbyss]

This is the first rule of skiing. Carry your own gear. It should never be broken. This is Peanut at the Belle when she was 16 months old

Can kids ski that young? I figured I'd start mine at 2, but I'm not opposed to starting earlier.

My dad took me for the first time when I was maybe 5 or 6?and we would ski a few days a year in the Catskills every year until I was about 15 when I took up snowboarding. I then snowboarded until I was 25, but after several broken wrists and 1 dislocated elbow I gave it up and went back to skiing. Knock on wood I've never had an injury skiing, though to be fair I started lifting weights about when I took up skiing again and I think that made my bones a bit more resilient.

I didn't really become a decent skier until I was in my mid 20s when I could afford to take trips up to Vermont and out West on my own dime.

Looking forward to repeating the cycle with son, hopefully winter will remain long enough of for him to enjoy it in his lifetime.

 

[Ripitz]

Can kids ski that young?

They don’t have the strength to go on their own until they’re older. I just hold her between my legs. I think it’s whatever you’re comfortable with, as long as they are having fun. I keep the session short. 30 minutes tops. Let them play in the snow the rest of the time. A couple laps on the magic carpet and one quick G-ride.

 

[raisingarizona]

1986.

 

[raisingarizona]

Started in the mid 1980's in elementary ski club. Friday nights at Deer Run (Stamford, NY). Skiing in the 80's was a fun time, from the fashion, lack of snowboards, and of course ski ballet. Ski club moved to Windham once Deer Run ran into financial dire straights. To show how much of a skier I was, I went on a trip to Sugarbush on Super Bowl weekend in 1991. I think we were the only people from NYS in VT that weekend.

I then taught for two years at Greek Peak during graduate school. That was fun. I taught Cornell PE to students who didn't exactly grow up on snow. I taught school groups, little kids, drunk Philly guys in jean's right off the bus, and Ithaca College kids.

Back in Albany, I worked for five years at Jiminy Peak, managing the ski wee program. That was draining. I rarely skied, preferring to hit the bar or head back home at the end of the day.

I'm now just a wanna be ski bum. I live for pow days. Being a skier for 35 years really gives you an interesting POV on how skiing has evolved over the years. My wife goes skiing (our first date was at Magic), but prefers sitting at the bar to skiing in 30 below windchills.

I’m in the same camp as tour wife. If it’s -30 I’m definitely in the bar.

 

[Campgottagopee]

I’m in the same camp as tour wife. If it’s -30 I’m definitely in the bar.

When you get the time it would be cool to read yours

 

[lukoson]

They don’t have the strength to go on their own until they’re older. I just hold her between my legs. I think it’s whatever you’re comfortable with, as long as they are having fun. I keep the session short. 30 minutes tops. Let them play in the snow the rest of the time. A couple laps on the magic carpet and one quick G-ride.View attachment 9059

Lucky is right!

 

[tirolski]

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Nice cheeks!
Is she plotting her run and/or just amazed at the scenery? Looks to be comfortable.
Skis look to be longer than she is.