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Thread: Very first run on skis?

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    Very first run on skis?

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    From summit of Hohe Salve in Soll, Austria. Thrown in at the deep end. Lost a ski half way down and didn't understand how bindings worked. Spent twenty minutes trying to step into a binding with the tail up.

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    The most amazing part is roo only made nine turns.

    Like many others here I was too young to remember my first run, but I remember that same year (three year old Dexter) watching my (2 yr old) brother take his first 'run', on those big red plastic skis with his moon boots strapped into them, on the flat outside the lodge somewhere in CO. I remember thinking it was pretty funny.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bad_roo
    http://www.tetongravity.com/usergall.../hohesalve.jpg
    From summit of Hohe Salve in Soll, Austria. Thrown in at the deep end. Lost a ski half way down and didn't understand how bindings worked. Spent twenty minutes trying to step into a binding with the tail up.
    i felt so good when i took my very first ski run only because i had both my arms still in the sockets after 6 or 7 attempts to get up the beginner slope using a rope tow
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    I skied into a huge wooden fence before I figured out how to turn.

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    It wasn't my first run but I was in 1st grade and I broke my leg on Stemtation at Waterville. Damn 1970s Look bindings never released. Snapped my leg pretty good (full leg cast for four months, half cast for two months). Thought that run was so scary. Pretty funny look back on it all now.

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    I gnared the hell out of Bailey's Beach @ Squaw at the tender age of 3.

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    I have no fucking idea where I took my first turns but it was probably at Grouse, Hemlock Valley or Gibson Pass (Manning Park). I was 3yo and have no recollection of that period of my life.
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    Bottom right of this mammoth of a mtn!
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    First run - pushed off the ridge down the Canadian at Fortress. Only 4 years old and it's still a vivid memory.

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    The mighty Glen Eden in Southern Ontario. Dig my wicked MS Paint skills.

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    castle run at Ober Gatlinburg...no time for the greens, I rawked onto the blues on my maiden voyage

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    Something at Rib Mountain in central Wisconsin. Can't really remember what the first run was, prolly the run off the rope tow. Only memory I really have is hanging onto the t-bar thinking that my arms would pull off before I reached the top...yes, I did finally learn how to ride one of those damn things!!
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    Don't really remember but I think it was here at super-ultimate-gaperific Tahoe Donner on the Snowbird beginner chair:
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    memorieeees....

    1986, Timberline Mountain, West Virginia. Being a Florida boy, I never really even had been in snow before except briefly on a family summer vacation across Colorado once. My friend's father had just bought a (crappy) chalet in Canaan Valley, so we went up to check it out.

    First day, I rented my skis and signed up for an immediate ski lesson. After 5 minutes of the instructor showing us how to snowplow, he told me to go get a refund and go skiing. So I did. I took the chair to the top and on my first run did a double black diamond run. It was ugly but I didn't fall. I tweaked it down to a single black diamond for the rest of the day.

    I can remember seeing a couple of snowboarders and thinking "why would anyone want to do that". 11 years later I try snowboarding, loved it, and wondered why I never did this before.
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    Horsetooth Mountain. sadly can't find any pics of even an old ski map. It was really just one run with a rope tow on the side that you could exit at one of three levels. the first time up my dad said "Just grab on to the dynamite stick and hold on tight." Saturday morning cartoons were fresh in my head and my three year old mind immediately thought of Wile E. Coyote's fate. I forged on, as I had no choice. By the end of the morning the top of the hill had been conquered.

    The afternoon was spent on the tube hill. This place was easily the best birthday party venue in history. regardless on my final run of the day I was sitting in my aunt's lap cheering as we crossed the finish line. A kid, aged about eight, obviously not schooled in the art of looking both ways crossed our path. our tube hit him in the shins and sent him ass over tea kettle out of the tube luge. skiing just didn't seem dangerous after that.
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    http://www.skiinfo.no/skimaps/maps/ENOHOVDE.jpg

    I believe I took run 6 to run 10 off the T-bar, or something similar to that. They have since expanded their beginner terrain, and rerouted some of the runs, so I can't point to the exact route we took

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    Alpine Valley, WI

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    This brings back such firm mammeries.

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    Thumbs up

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    Up chair C-2, age 6, Komo Ski program.

    edit: Dad carried my ski poles on the lift so I could hold on white-knuckled the whole way up for the first 3 days. Never did like heights from the get go.
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    MY first run was at Montage which was a 15 minute drive from my house. I was in 2nd or 3rd grade at the time. The very first "run" was on side track which I think we walked up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by onehotchili
    i remember my first really scary crash was trying to get on a rope tow in Tyrol, Austria at 4 years old.... and getting dragged up the mountain getting snow down my jacket thru the neck etc. i *wasn't* going to let go of that rope tow...
    Wow! That was mine too, 'cept I was 9 @ Willamette Pass, OR. Damned if I was going to let go.

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    http://www.ascutney.com/winter/image..._72dpi_med.jpg

    Ahhh, Ascutney. The wooden covered bridge wouldn't take the weight of the bus so it was a longer ride. For grades K-5 our parents paid $40 for the season and we got seven lessons and half-day tickets.

    To a little 365wp, the T-Bar was a little scary at first...this old guy who resembled Santa if Santa lived in a shack in rural VT ran it. I remembered a kid getting a bloody nose from the wooden bar hitting him in the face.

    Still remember the first ride up the chair...I vaguely remember having to use all my strength to lift the bar on the lift, couldn't really ride it alone for a year or so.

    And being jealous of my friends who figured out the mad steeze quicker than I did...in fact, I never really stopped being a gaper but learned to love the powder.

    Back to work to pay for trips out west...

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    http://www.skiswissvalley.com/images/slope-map2.jpg

    Swiss Valley, Michigan. First runs down the green runs on the other side of the access road.

    This has gotta take the cake for a trail map, doesn't it? Most rinky-dink places at least try to make the place look impressive on the map. You can hardly even pick up any contour on this one

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    Vail. Somewheres... 1991. I never look back.
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    First day of skiing, junior year in high school, Swiss Valley, MI

    Next day of skiing, senior year in college, Nashville Alps, IN

    After that, Feb, 2002, Bittersweet, MI and
    March 2002 Crystal Mt, MI <--where 41 yo hub and the kiddos learned to ski

    Last winter was more productive, Jan '03 Perfect North & Bittersweet, March '03 Caberfae Peaks.

    SO far this year, Brighton & 'Bird in Nov.

    So when I call myself a gaper I'm not kidding
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