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I remember going on a family ski vacation at the Telemark Lodge<\/a> in upper Wisconsin when I was about twelve-years old.\u00a0 Throughout my youth, my parents had encouraged me to take up various sports, with little luck.\u00a0 Golf was my favorite at the time.\u00a0 I was not a natural athlete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the ski lodge, I took a group lesson with Stein Eriksen<\/a>, the famous Olympic Gold Medalist from Norway.\u00a0 We all stumbled through the exercises until Herr Ski Meister deemed us fit to hit the slopes.\u00a0 I think something got lost in the translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among other things, he taught us how to snowplow, how to traverse, how to schuss and how to fall.  Guess which was the most important?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was on the bunny hill for several hours, snowplowing, falling, getting back up and repeating the violence.  I started to get the hang of it and even got good at traversing, which means meandering back-and-forth down the slope without hitting anybody, or so I thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just before noon, I took the Rope Tow Death Ride back to the top.  My stomach was growling.  I needed an inspiration. Hmmm?  Why not go straight down?  It would save time, plus give me the thrill of speed.  What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I stood at the summit (still on the bunny hill…I wasn’t stupid), peered stoically to the bottom of the “The Ramp to Hell” and gulped.  As I checked my bindings, I said a quick prayer (“Oh, God, what am I thinking?”) and pushed off with my rented poles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the leaf-lorn trees zipped past at a blinding pace, I had second thoughts.\u00a0 And third, and forth.\u00a0 I calculated in my 12-year-old brain that I was traveling at least 90% of the speed of light.\u00a0 But I couldn’t pull out now.\u00a0 That would be an even bigger mistake than the one I was currently making.\u00a0 My increasingly blurred vision saw dark shapes ahead, fellow skiers who had to move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I called on all my sports training and all my nerve, and shouted at the top of my lungs: “Fore!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They scattered like bowling pins on a newly-polished alley.  I went barreling past the pre-lunch crowd and snowplowed to a deranged stop just before I pancaked the main lodge.  I pulled up my goggles, and found I was parked next to a nice young couple who were exchanging their skis for walking boots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Hi!” I said as I dusted off my blood-free, snow-caked pants.  “Good run!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The author, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 1982
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