Welcome

Welcome to this blog. I created this so that my friends could follow my journey from alpine skier to tele-skier. Although I have no intent on giving up my first love (alpine) I decided to expand my views of skiing and try this up and coming snow sport.

A little background: The first real exposure I had to tele-skiing was watching Josh Smith back in the late 1990's. What I remember most is that he liked to take jumps and about 85% of the time would fall forward and do these really great face plants. Although I loved to laugh at him ( I mean with him), at no time did I see this in my future.

Several other friends have fallen victim to this sport since and with three knee surgeries to my name all I could think was "there is no way I would do that".

So why now? Who knows, I caved under pressure, I need a mental distraction (which by the way has led to finishing college, kayaking trips with orca's, sprint triathalons, just to mention a few), or to get Michael off my back ;-)

For those of you who know me well, you already know i'm a little competitive so if i'm going to try something I have no desire to spend much of my time totally sucking at it. So if I was going to do this I needed to do it right.

Donna Smith decided to go on this journey with me, so we signed up for a 6 week course (every Sunday) at Taos for ~ 2:30 - 3 hours each session. For those who are not familiar with Taos, they have the best ski school in the country (or so they claim).

With the cost of lessons, lift tickets, and rental gear I figure this is about a $800 investment, so I feel confident I will come out of the next six weeks with either a desire to do this or not. Wish me luck.