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  1. #126
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    Just got skis for my 18 month little girl, going to try some flat land touring in March... she walks all over the house with ski poles in her hands now... next season we'll try her on a gentle slope.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Canada1 View Post
    I have them walk around on the carpet with the skis. If they had the coordination for that, then skiing with an edgie wedgie. I tie a bunch of knots in the edgie wedgie to make the Pizza Shape almost forced. That leads into some short fun outings on the slope. They get tired fast. By 3 they are able to ski half a day and enjoy it. I retire the edgie wedgie as soon as they have the strength to make a good wedge without it. I left one in it to long, and it took months to break a few of his bad wedge habits and get him really carving. My boys could go for the whole day by 3, but my daughter just turned 4 gets worn down by half a day. (She could probably do the bunny hill all day, but I can't)

    The reality of this was also that my wife and my personal sanity drove us to get them out their that young, but it worked on all 3 kids.

    Good luck. It is pretty awesome to share something you built your life around with your kids.


    This...start as earlier and as often and as long as you and they can take it....push them but make it fun...the faster they learn to get good the more they realize they are good and want to do it more...

    I started this one at about 24 months....she just turned 8 in Dec and here she is winning the GS race at Breck last week
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    Quote Originally Posted by JoeStrummer View Post
    Let me get this straight. . . you track WHEN you have flown to Colorado and then overlay that with snow records and then construct a graph to support your hypotheses that you are a snow fairy? That is awesomeness and ego-centrism mixed together!

    I know that the days I spend the most time on PornHub seem to correspond to lack of snowfall. But it never occured to me to graph it out!

  3. #128
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    Watch what you say and watch what you do, kids will copy everything.

    After skiing backwards all day taking vids/pics of her, Piper figured it was her turn.


  4. #129
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    she skis switch way better than me!

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    Quote Originally Posted by homeeey View Post

    After skiing backwards all day taking vids/pics of her, Piper figured it was her turn.
    awesome.

  6. #131
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    My 5-year-old, at Bellayre this last weekend

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    Attachment 131407

    Owen in the freestyle comp this weekend
    I didn't believe in reincarnation when I was your age either.

  8. #133
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    Quote Originally Posted by telemike View Post
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    Owen in the freestyle comp this weekend
    ^^^ embed that!

    edit: weird, showed up only as an attachment in your post; but, as a pic in my reply. Anyway... amazing pic. One to be proud of for sure.

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    There is video but I don't have it yet.

    Thanks. We are super proud.
    I didn't believe in reincarnation when I was your age either.

  10. #135
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    Sage this last weekend @ 2 years 10 months. As good as the last couple years have been it is about five thousand times better taking her skiing now that she is rockin the K2's instead of riding around in her blue sled. So much fun!







    Ripping through the bunny hill gates!

    Last edited by uglymoney; 02-06-2013 at 07:25 PM.

  11. #136
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    Zach(5) skiing "my Blue Heaven" at Kicking horse day 6 on snow

  12. #137
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    7 Year old Loghan....



    Sorry about the wind...did not have time to edit it out.
    Courage + believe = life. Life is not about how many breaths you take. It's what you do with those breaths

  13. #138
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    We've been finding it tough to get out as a family with a 3 year old and 1 year old. Then the backpack solution presented itself. We've even taken the little (He's actually ~30 lbs, so not so little) guy up the chair and I skied with him on my pack while my wife took held the reins of the 3 year old.
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  14. #139
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    Touring with my 6yo and her Gramma yesterday.... She asked to go!!!!



    And then I found a cave.

    "I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."- Alan Greenspan

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    Quote Originally Posted by weasel1 View Post
    Touring with my 6yo and her Gramma yesterday.... She asked to go!!!!



    And then I found a cave.

    this is just awesome
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    First time on skis! She's 2 years and a couple of months. This is just play time, the real stuff starts next winter.

    "fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
    "She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
    "everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy

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    Awesome Danno
    I didn't believe in reincarnation when I was your age either.

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    JOY:
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    >>>200 cm Black Bamboo Sidewalled DPS Lotus 120 : Best Skis Ever <<<

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    How do you get to be the fastest 6-year-old girl (white helmet) on the team? Ski with the boys. /vicariousparentpridebraggadocio

  20. #145
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    Still learning the finer points of "The Point"
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    But found his new favorite trail (boot deep...well, knee deep to him, will do that):
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    It makes perfect sense...until you think about it.

    I suspect there's logic behind the madness, but I'm too dumb to see it.

  21. #146
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    Lots of summertime kid stoke in this one: a look back at the summer of 2012 with my family.

    Last edited by JMO; 04-03-2013 at 10:56 AM.
    People shooting ski areas should be sued.

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    stay tuned
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    "fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
    "She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
    "everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy

  24. #149
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    3 months of bitter cold kept us from getting Anna out much during the heart of winter. However, we decided to close the season down proper. My wife took off with some friends and headed to California while I held down the fort at home.

    Memorial Weekend 2013: Me, Anna and Van. This was Van's first day on the slopes.
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    Me, Anna and Van
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    One stoked little ski bunny and one zonked out boy ...in a bunny suit = successful day
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    I've said it before in this thread... I know that my kids won't remember the awesome things we did with them as babies and toddlers; but, the goal is for them to never remember a time when they weren't getting out and playing with their mom and dad.

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    good on you Dad!
    I didn't believe in reincarnation when I was your age either.

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