realskiers

very true, and understood, that's part of why I wanted to go with my history of "events" shall we say. But if we don't overcome them or at least come to grips with them, it becomes limiting.  Surrendering to the fact I have been injured skiing (a few times now) and there is risk but then not permitting those inner voices to interfere with nonsensical thoughts is where I need to be. 45 or 70, it's the same thing. If you think that being 60 prohibits you from skiing deeper/steeper more technical stuff, ask yourself if the age is issue or is that what your inner voice uses as a justification or is there something else stopping you.  I can see the fear of crashing but I just skied with 2, 62 year olds who dropped an 800' chute with 45 degrees at the opening..... I didn't do it because I couldn't overcome the doubt I had although both Dan and Eric said i could ski it without issue. I can accept that but need to get over it. It just needs to happen. You can set a goal for it, that's just allowing yourself more time, you just have to do it.