If there’s something I’ve taken for granted in recent years, it’s my ability to “ski my age”, that is to make as many ski outings as I racked up years. So, it’s with some trepidation that around the middle of March time in the season when I’ve historically “skied my age”, I realized that I only had skied 48 times!
Sure, I fell on my posterior while blowing my snow, back in December, followed by a full-blown sciatica, and this put a serious damper on my ability to ski and, even after healing completely, I never recovered my pace again.
In spite of my advancing age and aside from being much stiffer all over, I felt good on my skis as my cognitive skills, technical ability and comfort at all speed and in all terrains had not changed a bit. At that point in time, I knew that Park City Mountain was scheduled to shut down on April 13, so I started to panic, since I only had 29 more times to go out while there were only 26 days available…
Thank God, nearby Deer Valley Resorts decided to extend its ski season to Sunday, April 20, so that pushed Park City Mountain to reciprocate, even going one day better, as it extended its season to April 21. I was technically saved and on April 19 I hit 77 times matching my number of years.
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