I played baseball at JC, then alpine skied competitively. I met my wife while skiing, as she was on the women's team.
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GS/downhill. There was no Super G when I was in school, and I flat-out sucked at slalom. My wife, on the other hand, was great in the slalom and the GS, and she didn't do the downhill. We have our 5 year-old ripping on the slopes already, and our 4 year-old girl took lessons last year and seems ready to join us on the big chair. We drive over to Bend at least 2 weekends a month in the winter as we prefer Mt. Bachelor to Mt. Hood.
Thats frickin sweet, I LOVE the downhill. I wish I grew up in the mountains and not by the beach. Skiing is one of the few things in this world that im VERY good at. I have my Atomic Olympic downhill skis (198cm) and just love to point and tuck down the steepest groomers...so much fun...until they threaten to kick you off the mountain for going too fast
Back when I raced, the downhill ski was 223cm. Skiing is SO much easier now due to the parabolic technology, and I love it because it allows more people to enjoy the mountain. I was fortunate in that my family moved from the NW to Montana when I was 11, and it allowed me to literally wake up and be on a ski hill within a 20 minute time frame. Baseball, on the other hand, was much more difficult due to the short seasons in Montana. We did pack in 70-odd games during the Legion season, but when I got to JC, I knew after the fall season that I needed a new plan because (A) I was barely good enough to start in CF, and that was part of a platoon (even though I was a switch hitter), and (B) there was no freaking way I was going to spend another four months in the town of Liberal, Kansas. So, I headed back to the mountains and still got to compete.
