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KenK/84Bravo
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Anyone ever skied Crested Butte, Co. ?
12,500ft at the top lift. Hike 1/2 hour up and ski the "Banana Couliour." Double Black Diamond.
Sick stuff. Several Extreme Skiing Championships have taken place there. Most are in Chugach, AK.
Gore Mountain, NY. " The Rumor,"
Killington, Mogul field? (Sorry, I am drawing a blank on the name of the run.)
Anyone?
12,500ft at the top lift. Hike 1/2 hour up and ski the "Banana Couliour." Double Black Diamond.
Sick stuff. Several Extreme Skiing Championships have taken place there. Most are in Chugach, AK.
Gore Mountain, NY. " The Rumor,"
Killington, Mogul field? (Sorry, I am drawing a blank on the name of the run.)
Anyone?
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A person learning to ski should never get on really high mountains and go straight down the mountain on skies. You can reach amazingly high speeds going straight down an icy mountain slope. You can even gain speed when you fall down on really high icy mountain slopes. No matter how clear it may look there's gonna be a tree some where.
More like double soft fluffy bunny slopes.
Besides the women folk are all covered up with bulky layers of clothing...
Vacation spots should avail you of bikinis and yoga pants and fabletics...
Mike
Yep, thats it.
Thanks - I was drawing a blank.
There were several "clique's" in high school;
Rich ski bums
semi well to do snow mobile bums
Athletic Sports bums of various means
Greaser's which were mostly car bums of various means
Geeks of various means
And then there was me. A rebel who bucked the system with his hand me down pair of ice skates who learned to fly on frozen lakes!
Country. Side benefit was that Managers and our Ski dept. guys could ski free just about anywhere on the East Coast.
We posted Ski Reports (conditions/snow reports,) and featured brochures on pretty much any place you could imagine. That is what got us free skiing. Quid Pro Quo.
I skied my brains out for years and years. Only cost? Travel time/expenditures and eats. Talk about a sweet benefit.
Have not been in years. I miss it.
Special light infantry on ski's with maybe some light belt fed SAWS and a Carl Gustav 84mm RR as heavies combined with the M203s and some disposable ord...
Mike
Your post made me remember a trip I made down to Mt. Ashland in SW Oregon during spring break 1981.
It was bright sunny that week and pretty warm on the hill so I shed my shirt and was skiing in a pair of Levi's and a cowboy hat. 8-) There were co-eds wearing bikinis, some in short shorts and halter tops, all manner of summer wear. It was a great week to be an un-attached 21 year old male!!!
Crested Butte used to have "Topless day." Athletic adventuresome Women. Yes indeed a sight to behold. (1995'ish, last time I was there.) Just had gotten divorced, decided I needed a trip out West to clear my head, enjoy myself. Stayed at a Ski house on the Mountain, with good friends I used to work with. Most now worked for the Mountain in some regard. (Inside edge.) Knew everyone, Great Parties. I don't think my Ex was too happy. (She called while I was out there, in the midst of a great Party at the house I was staying at.) I couldnt really hear her, nor did I want to talk to her. Too bad, so sad.
The whole month of April used to be "No lift ticket charge." A good month to be there. I guess they made their $$ on food, lodging, local economy, promoting the mountain for future business etc.
Flew back East from the rural Gunnison Airport, sitting beside Marianne from Gilligans Island. A total sweetheart.