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in my youth somewheres around mid 70's colleges BANNED downhill racing. too many deaths. so this left for me either GS or SLALOM. well i got damn tired hitting slalom gates and running into them and felt my life expectancy would be longer running GS(giant slalom) and wayyy more fun. and it was.
Fischer C-4 comps 195cm
Kniessel GS -215cm
K-2 comps-205cm
Dynamic comps-210cm
i learned as a kid and took to it like a duck to water. went all over colorado for almost 4 years. our training was at lake eldora and we had season lift tickets there. we set up classes for the semester to ski early morning and be back to class or class early am and ski from 4-5pm until 10pm. eldora had night skiing.
btwn dirty bikes during the summer and skiing during the winter i could kick ass and take names with the best. got to meet billy kidd/hank kashiwa/spider sabich before that ***** claudine longet shot him and a host of other groovy people from around the planet.
how fast did we go?????? a HELL OF ALOT FASTER than i WANTED TO MANY TIMES! had my share of taking bark off of trees or blowing corners on ice. will never ferget the sound of ice under my boards! crashed ALOT and managed nothing worse than bad sprains and a few cuts and bruises from windmilling skis. the worst crash was spring skiing at loveland in shorts wearing no shirt/higher than a kite drunk and sliding down a very very very steep incline and getting STRAWBERRIED TO HELL! man that juan HURT! i was MR SCAB!
black diamond runs were an excuse to bet who would buy the beer.
when you do it 6 days a week for seasons................man ya get good. the best powder areas were the back bowls of vail and steamboat. steamboat was and still is SNORKEL POWDER thru the trees. unreal above yer head snow in places.
most fun area and best bang fer buck...............winterpark,colorado. take the train!
and thats how i rolled!(GOGAR-IZM)
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