Results of an old man's ski trip.

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

 

[Gary Ayala]

LOL!!!! (I was expecting maybe a trophy.)

 

[Gary Ayala]

Results of an old man stupidly moving a ton of steel at a construction site.​

Between us two ... we could make a whole person.

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

Results of an old man stupidly moving a ton of steel at a construction site.View attachment 21473​

Between us two ... we could make a whole person.

Seems so.

 

[Paul Taylor]

I have been skiing once, some friends and I went up to Copper Mountain Colorado for a week - and as a person who spent much of his past years jumping off tall bridges into rivers, skydiving, and racing things with wheels - I was astonished at how fast I was able to go with a long pair of skis and really good snow. It is a miracle I didn't injure myself.

I worked with a 70+ year old fabricator at a hot-rod shop who was an avid skier - and apparently quite good as he would enter ski races and usually win. It reminded me of the scenes in Star Wars when Yoda is hobbling around like an ancient, elderly creature but when he has to fight he was a ninja-gymnast. That is how Ron was. He waddled around the shop like a high mileage elderly old man - but when the skis went on he moved like a decades younger Olympian.

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

It seems like me when I do not fall. I have been a skier since I was 5 years old, cross country skier, ski jumping until I was in my twenties, and a hockey player. But even the most courageous ones fall, whether badly or not. It was my pride that hurt the most together with an ankle which was broken in two places in a soccer match when I was a wee bit younger. Big boys never cry, but complain a lot I hear them say.

 

[Gary Ayala]

My wife was like that ... she's this petite little thing, (five foot tall, weighs as much as a wet dish towel), but on snow ... she turned into 'The Flash-on-Ski's' ... a petite little monster flying down the slopes.


The Flash

not


Flash

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

Here is one from when I was still standing

 

[Gary R. Smith]

Ah, now I understand your comment on the coffee thread.

This is likely why I no longer ski.

Take it easy for a while and stay off it (but I suppose you know that).

 

[Gary Ayala]

Soooo ... Ivar Dahl-Larsen ... if you don't mind me asking, what is the injury? How long will you be incapacitated? (I want to see an old man back on the slopes.)

 

[Beth Anthony]

get better soon!