Tag: fun

Powder is Nirvana for skiers: the fullest state of existence, always chased but never totally grasped. Powder snow skiing is not fun. It’s “life, fully lived, life lived in a blaze of reality,” said Colorado writer Dolores LaChapelle. It’s the feeling of flying free and fast. It’s glorious. At least it is if you know…

So, you’re thinking, how hard can it be to teach a child to ski? Pick up some sticks, load the kids up with hot chocolate and Gummi bears and plop them on the bunny slope, where you can give them a tight-lipped lecture about how they are going to have fun, dang it, while trying…