Word: ski
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...projects, Metro mounted a campaign in the 1950s to clean up Puget Sound and Lake Washington, one of the city's aquatic play grounds. Metro later took over and revived the countywide transportation network, creating a park-ride system to bring in suburbanites, a weekend bus service to ski areas and free fares to the downtown areas...
That particular scene naturally made me a little uncomfortable. But even worse, was another typical Christmas day scenario. Everyone was required, of course, to try on his or her old ski boots, just to make sure there weren't going to be "any problems" on the slopes. My father would become very angry at anyone who had the nerve to warn him that his or her boots were probably three sizes too small. Of course, there are absolutely no places to buy ski boots on Christmas. So the slip-up would invariably mean a quick trip to the local ski...
Stratton, one of Vermont's most chic skiing resorts was the usual destination. I attribute my failure to learn how to ski to the fact that we always went to Stratton, where all my classmates--who knew how to ski before they could walk--also flocked. My father enrolled us all in skiing classes, and it's difficult to tell how embarassed I felt in the beginner's lessons when everyone else was schussing through the advanced classes--or worse, didn't need any tutoring...
...have since given up alpine skiing and joined the fashionable hordes of cross-country skiers. It's a lot more fun, and a lot warmer. One of the best nights of my freshman year I spent skiing up and down the Yard, occasionally venturing down to the River. And there are for those more adventurous types who lack large families to organize and small children to buy ski boots for, some beautiful places in New Hampshire and Maine that provide excellent cross-country skiing. In fact, Acadia National Park, on Mt. Desert Island in Maine, is reputed to be absolutely...
Murphy said a Wigglesworth resident told the police he claims to have heard noises originating from the ski room between 2:00 and 2:30 Monday morning...