Right now, I am just rounding up my thoughts from my first year of skiing.  Quite frankly, I fell in love with skiing.  I love the feeling of cold wind whipping against my coat, hearing snow crunch beneath my poles, and seeing my skis glide over powder.  There is, well, nothing like it.  I have a few more thoughts that I’ll share below.

Here are some of what I thought were the best things.  First off, I thought doing my school’s ski club was awesome!  There is nothing like skiing with a ton of your friends!  Often we skied in groups as large as 20 or 30 people.  It is so fun ’cause we would race each other down and the back up the mountain.  Other times, we traveled in smaller herds of adolescents.  Also, we got to go a lot.  We went 5 Fridays from 1:00 to 8:00 at night.  We went to Pats Peak, in Henniker, New Hampshire, which has a great mountain, an excellent lodge (with great food), and good prices.  Also, the ability to rent my gear was nice, because I didn’t own any, being a first time skier.

Below, I have some of the rookie mistakes I made and some helpful tips.

• First off, probably the biggest mistake I made: trying to do a glade on my first day!  I went off one of the jumps, landed too hard causing my right ski to come off, which in turn made me hit myself in, well, an unmentionable area with my ski pole.
• Also, many times, I went wayyyy too fast and lost control.
• Finally, watch where you’re going!!!  Once, I wasn’t looking and fell on my friend Heather.

So, here are my top 3 tips:

1. Watch where you are going,
2. Don’t over estimate yourself,
3. And never, ever go above your level of capability.

If you don’t ski, you should try it today!!! (Or whenever the slopes are ready where you live.)

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