Ski trail ratings

[jim-ratliff]

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In my younger days of skiing, I worried about how much vertical I did skiing. My skiing mentor always told me to worry much more about how much horizontal I got at night. But that was a long time ago.

Your "skiing mentor" was worried about how much sleep you got at night. 
That's kinda strange for someone during their "younger days"??   

[LivingProof]

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In my younger days of skiing, I worried about how much vertical I did skiing. My skiing mentor always told me to worry much more about how much horizontal I got at night. But that was a long time ago.

Your "skiing mentor" was worried about how much sleep you got at night.?
That's kinda strange for someone during their "younger days" ?

To be clear and as this is a skiing site, my friend was suggesting that, like skiing, sleeping is much better when shared with a friend. Wise man, now departed, I miss him much.

[Gary]

If I may add my 2 ignorant sense.

Since we seldom ski in a straight line and travesrse the vertical you so aply described....then I would inject that you are skiing indeed more vertical than the statistics state.

Depending on whether you ski short, medium or long radius turns and how many times you have to walk back up hill to pick up your ski, a pole, a glove, or any yard sale equipment...
SO you must be skiing way more than you think you're skiing....but just not right now with Lynn! 

There...feel better Jim! 

G

[jim-ratliff]

Jim,

A roughly 90% reduction in length must be pretty traumatic for you, but you're man enough to cope.? As he said, just go skiing with Lynn and enjoy the view(s).

Can't believe that I have decided to go here -----? ?

Yes Gary, feeling much better than I was, especially after Todd "cut me down to size" with the post above and after Mike's friend suggested that maybe the horizontal was more fun than the vertical.? Personally, I think both are pretty special.

But, thanks to your wonderful insight, I realize that I have been doing more horizontal than I realized.? I tend to traverse back and forth across the trail a lot rather than skiing the fall line with short turns, so I am getting a lot more horizontal as a result of that.? ? Different focus makes Jim a happy man again.

I may be at 180 miles instead of 90.

[Gary]

I'd like to think we see more of the mountain that way Jim!

 

[meput]

Todd, I would be happy to provide a prescription . I do not know if your insurance carrier will cover it . If your carrier does cover it, it is a safe bet that the healthcare recovery act will ban it or find a way to tax it . I do think "therapeutic medical skiing" has a nice tone. Maybe HH would like to use it.

Jim #2