Skiing: A Life to Live

Sorry to have been away from the immorttal thread but all my free time has been on the slopes. I have been out 37 times this year so far and am looking forward to a cold March here in N/W New Jersey. I was looking at all my accumulated lift passes this year and was wondering why I didn't buy a pass. But, like my ex-wife always told me, I can't commit to one thing...lol. There are just too many places to ski in this area. I haven't made to Plattekill yet, have done Hunter on a very uncrowded weekday. It was awesome. Plattekill is next I think. My experience? I put on skis for the first time last february.
 
Wow, what a season. I have just come up for air after the most dismal season I have experienced in my short skiing career. The good news is that I started several good friends off on life-long addictions to snow riding. The bad news is that I have been working so hard (and the snow was so bad) that I got too few days on the hill and even fewer behind the computer. <BR> <BR>The really good news, however, is that my sports marketing/promotions company is putting together an 11-city West Coast film premier tour for Teton Gravity Research. In October, I will be spending 30 days on the road with the film crew and the athletes promoting the tour and attending the premier parties. I hope to ski Jackson Hole (and anywhere else) with the TGR gang this coming season. It turns out that even when I'm busting my hump to make a living and not on the mountains, the path always leads back to skiing. <BR> <BR>Who else is out there reading along during these hot summer days? Marc, I'm sure you're around. Give me a call or drop a line. How about Brittney, the Snoqualmie instructor? Are you still around? <BR> <BR>Please drop me a line as I have some other snow related marketing clients I'd love to discuss with the readers and get some ides for. Thanks.
 
The thread that would not die ... <BR> <BR>Who else is around? Not many in here, it seems. A little bit more "community" sense would likely work, but that never caught on around here. Pity, really. No-Bull Reports were always "Just the facts, ma'am!" and although readership traffic is higher than ever, folks never really gravitated to these forums. Ideas are welcome on that front. <BR> <BR>Amit, good to hear from you ... I thought that you dropped off the face of the earth. Remember, bud ... you still owe me some material. <IMG SRC="http://www.firsttracksonline.com/discus2/clipart/wink.gif"> <BR> <BR>And BTW, congratulations at the early success of your business endeavors.
 
I should've mentioned, Amit ... feel free to join us in the chat room at 9 pm EDT / 6 pm PDT tonight.
 
Dismal season???????????????? Not sure where you were sking but here in the east the snow was great. I can only pray that the snow gods deliver this year what they gave us last year.
 
You guys in the east got all our NW snow. We were pretty dry. I got to ski every type of ice imaginable, but very few powder days--even Cascade powder.
 
Its Mid-september..I can start to feel the season changing. Wooooooooohooooooooooo, i saw my breath for the first time since last april. My new sticks are in the shop getting mounted and i am sitting here in my ski boots. The only thing wrong with this picture is the memory of those <BR>B*STARDS and what they did last tuesday. I fear this winter may be quite different from last. God save us and God bless America!!!!!
 
Well, its a month later and still no one has come to say hello. Perhaps with everything that is going on right now in the country, no one really is thinking about skiing in the same way as last year at this time. I know one thing for certain, to let these murders scare anyone from going out and see a ballgame, go to a movie, ski, etc. is only giving them what they want. They wish to disrupt our lives to a point where we are scared to go out and do the things that we are so used to doing. I, for one, am not going to let these evil S.O.B.'s intimidate me into not taking pleasure in the things that I enjoy doing. Of course I will be cautious, we all must be. But I will not let someone who knows nothing about what America is about dictate what I do and how I act.
 
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