My last ski students?

Forty years ago, I was making the ultimate turns of my last ski season, teaching full-time in Avoriaz, France. I remember these German students, they just had a great time on the mountain!

It's not that I didn't enjoy the job, even though I had measured its limitations, but I needed a year-round job. I wasn't a carpenter or an electrician or had any solid counter-seasonal occupation.

I didn't saw myself as a retailer or a restaurant operator, the other alternatives, and after trying my hand at a number of esoteric, off-season activities, I had given up these options, I was simply on my way out. Yes, the end of a fun era...