Skiing has always had multiple appeals to me that have changed over the years. I began with jumping followed by a hockey turn 69 years ago, then a downhill course through the trees ending on a meadow. It then continued with learning to ski better as I worked as a liftie.
When I could ski parallel, I trained in slalom on a slope behind my parent’s house where the course was set with twigs and I climbed back up by side-stepping. I eventually became a ski instructor to transmit my knowledge to small kids, then ranked beginners and eventually all kinds of skiers.
I went through some long periods when I was almost totally depraved from skiing and as soon as I returned to the mountains, I caught up with that lost time with a vengeance.
During all these years - until very recently in fact - I kept on learning and improving myself. For the last 2 or 3 years, I might have plateaued and now the next, inevitable stage, will see my audacity, speed, balance and skills go down, but when?
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