John Fereira wrote:


BTW, to Tinkertom...where is the triple black diamond run at
Keystone? When
I skied there they only had one black diamond run and it was pretty
marginal
for that classification.

There you go getting me confused with the facts. That was 15 years ago
or so, and I thought it was Keystone, but then it might have been a
green run as well. All I remember was this human snowball slowly
rolling down the slope.

I will tell you another OT story, which is my favorite, and has to do
with the worlds greatest athelete (well at least IMHO)


This has to do when I was learning to ski, and I was playing the part
of the human snowball. I had taken 3 or 4 days of lessons, and the
instructor told me I just needed to go out and get time on the slopes.
This was great fun until I started pushing my limits on the blue/black
runs especially with moguls.

One day, while setting on Lower Columbine @ Mary Jane, amongst the
moguls probably having fallen for the hundredth time, and not totally
convinced that I was having fun, and generally feeling sorry for
myself. I all of a sudden heard a hoot behind me and figured I was
about to get run over. With a great deal of effort the two skiers
coming down together missed me, but piled up on the side of the run. I
expected them to be mad at me for setting in the center of a narrow
run, and for causing them to fall. Surprisingly, all I heard was
laughter as they untangled themselves and their skies and poles, and
with out missing a beat, they took off down the moguled slope. The ski
instructor holding the leash of the blind skier, and then I realized
that the blind skier had only one leg.

I realized then that I had nothing to complain about, and if he could
ski the moguls, then there was no reason stopping me except what was
between by ears. I can still remember them skiing away down that slope,
and the last thing I heard as they turned out of sight, was the worlds
greatest athelete, laughing. TnT