Word: lift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Using your own energy to get up the hill is natural, environmentally friendly and relatively risk-free. It will allow your to enjoy the winter beauty at your own pace. And it will save you the 25 bucks you would have spent on a lift ticket...
...anyway, just for the challenge. On a T-bar, you don't sit on the upside-down wooden T that gives the lift its name. If you just kind of lean, you'll get a gentle ride up the hill. If you sit down, you'll fall, and the people behind you will fall as they try to get out of your way. People have died...
Sure, the slopes are shorter than their counterparts out West, but the lift lines are shorter as well...
...neared the top of the slope, it occurred to me that the instructor never told me how to get off the lift. So I flopped gracelessly off and fell on my side in the snow. My right ski came...
...native New Englander, I'd never skied before last January, and my inexperience shamed me in my younger years. I envied the lift tickets that my friends and neighbors hung so nonchalantly from the zippers of their brightly colored parkas...