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...course, the better a skier you are the more you can enjoy the sensation of sliding downhill. Anyone with enough patience who is willing to withstand a few seasons of embarrassing uncoordination can learn to ski well, and no matter what legions of instructors say, skiing can be a self-taught discipline. All you need is someone to show you the basics...
...Every skier comes to a point sooner or later in his or her careers when the person realizes that he or she is in love with sport. For me this moment came last year. I had been waiting for 25 minutes on a lift line at Killington. I was freezing, the conditions were awful, and I had aggravated an old injury on the previous run. Yet none of this bothered me in the least. I came to the sudden, unmistakable realization that there was no place else I wanted to be, that I was completely hooked on downhill skiing...
Four years ago I watched my brother break his leg. I have a complete instant replay in my mind. Lee is a much better skier than I am, so I followed him down a narrow cutoff and watched as he stumbled for a split-second and flew off into the trees, where a small elm broke his fall and both bones in his right calf. Lee still skis...
...regulars. Not long ago, Sabich reportedly told a close friend that their relationship was at a crucial point. "It's either going to end," the friend quoted Spider as saying, "or we'll be married within a year." Rumors were flying in Aspen last week that the skier had been considering ordering her and her three children out of his house-and his life...
...really interested in the Olympics, he should have taken this year off," Horn suggested. "He's an unbelievably talented skier...