Message #7491

[Glenn]

I started skiing when CB jackets with neon were the "thing" to have. I was in 5th grade...so about 1988? We went up every weekend to the this little mountain in Western Mass called "Blanford". I just loved it...I liked the speed, I liked being outdoors in the winter. I got into racing a year or so after I started. In high school, I was skiing 4 times week...Saturday and Sunday recrational, Tuesday Thursday practices, races. I picked up snowboarding in highschool as well. I needed to change things up on the weekend a bit.    I eventually got out of boarding in 96 or so when I picked up my first pair of "parabolic" skis. Woohoo! Those were sweet! Still have em' too. I skied less and less in college...then started working, got engaged, bought a house... But last season, we got back into it. I had taught my wife to ski before we bought the house and she's now really into it.