Very first run on skis?

3 or 4 years old...


all i remember is crying cause my mom forced me to take a short half day group lesson......the rest is history
http://www.jfbb.com/images/big-boulder-map.jpg

I use to go around on Dads back, until I spewed on him., then I was on skis from 3.

My back yard, Glen Lake MN. Age: 3.
Herringboned up the hill in the back, slipping backwards. Fought my way to the top and promply crashed my way down. Parent were relieved since at least I wasn't standing up on the sleds or toboggans anymore.

Skied every day in the winter until I was 11.

First lift served day: rope tows at Cedar Hills MN. HELP! played on the loudpeakers, now always brings it back.

age: 1.5 yrs
location: devils head
trail: "0" aka devils playground
radness: high

3 yrs old, in the front yard of the Halings house. they were some friends of my parents who's teenage sons had turned a vw beetle into a rope tow. I cant believe my mom let her 3 year old try and ride that thing. their front yard was pretty long and had a decent pitch to it, i couldnt hold on through the steep part so only skied the bottom.

then moved on to good old Bousquet
http://www.bousquets.com/images/trailmap.jpg

At the tender age of 35 the rope tow whipped me to the top of the beginner slope of Mt Southington where I proceeded to rip the shit out of it. Did I mention I was wearing a periwinkle blue one-piece? (Hey, a girl's gotta have sum style!)

http://www.mountsouthington.com/imag...a_Map_blue.jpg

Sprite

6yo. Parents decided that since the neighbors skied, so would we. We were living in Munich at the time, and they asked one of those neighbors where their kids learned to ski. The answer: Steinberg am Rofan. A tiny little hamlet in a dead-end valley in Tirol.
http://www.tiscover.at/at/images/RGN.../Steinberg.jpg
The meadows inthe front were the grazing grounds of the farmers' livestock, and they built t-bars and pomas on them to use in the winter. The next year we upgraded a bit:
http://www.unisport.at/images/St._Anton.jpg
but we always returned to Steinberg for at least a week every year until I was 11. It was a great place to fall in love with a sport.

I learned on the beginner slope at Mount Snow, or so I'm told as I was 3 years old. Most of my early skiing was done at Ascutney though.
http://www.mountsnow.com/images/trai...inMountain.jpg

Not my first run, per se...but a lot of my early skiing was my mom taking me to the top of this and letting her 3 year old son go, where I would absolutely straightline it into my dad's arms at the bottom.

http://www.skiward.com/images/map.gif