Did years ago...not anymore.
Skied Camelback in Pa and MT Snow in Vermont.

How do you get a Utah city named after you? LOL

My son's name is spelled: Parke - A family name!

His photo makes remember how it felt to be out on the slopes. I skied in PA, Vermont (so cold!!!) and Vail and Beaver Creek, Colorado. It was fun was you got out on the slopes, but getting into all that gear, being sure you had everything you needed (lift ticket, lunch money, tissues, lip balm, etc) and getting onto the slopes was a big pain. I would not go again because I would be afraid of getting hurt, but it was great fun to fly over the snow.

I worked at a ski resort in NJ when I was in high school. Never took lessons but went skiing on all but the expert slopes! Also went 'tray riding' with cafeteria trays after hours. On took a toboggan down the slope -wouldn't do that again-yikes-way too fast!

One more: this was the ice skating rink

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My daughter and her family are avid skiers, and my granddaughter snowboards. They ski in Utah every year, and some of you might remember that my daughter and son-in-law got married atop a mountain in Vermont. The bride wore white North Face.

As for me, I did a little cross-country skiing on our property years ago, but Raynaud's Syndrome put an end to that. Before that, I tried downhill skiing, but I had a little problem: I hate going downhill. :-)

I skied at Tahoe every chance I got when I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. DS started skiing at 7 years. I had to give up skiing about 10 years ago when my arthritic knees were very painful. My knees haven't bothered me the last few years.

As Linda says, skiing is very popular here. There are a number of very good ski resorts just 3-4 hours from the Bay Area. Many people have condos/cabins/houses in the mountains. And most years, the snow fall totals many hundreds of inches.

Beautiful pictures, I do not like snow so I do not even snow walk:)

I went snow skiing once....on a blind date.
Both were horrible.
I don't "do" snow.

My son took his camera on his ski trip a couple of weeks ago, and his batteries had died. heh. When we used to live in California, my parents and their couple friends skied all the time. First time my mom went, to learn, they told her to pick the tallest mountain and go down it. It took her (and her friend) so long to get down the mountain, practically crawling, the daycare had closed. Don't learn it that way! My ex, when he was a young thang and lived in Germany, snuck over the border into communist Czech and broke his thumb skiing. Oy, that must've been harrowing.

I went one time years ago. I never got off the learners slope. I never got beyond "snow plowing". I was just too afraid.

The worst fall I took was on the huge outdoor wood deck when I was WALKING inside to get coffee for us. That hurt for days!

I love it! I have never skied in Utah though. Mostly Colorado and New Mexico.

CO is getting some great snow right now!

I always met a lot of southerners when I skied. It was fun to talk to them on the lifts. Also, loads of people from England - who are really hilarious. Once could not get over OREO'S - They just loved them and couldn't stop talking about them.

Son has done Breckenridge number of times, but told me he really likes Park City.

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I took a skiing lesson at Whistler years ago. The instructor said he'd never heard anyone with a vocabulary like mine (he was referring to my long words, not "naughty" ones) and said that I thought too much. Skiing is supposed to be based on instinct, I guess. He sent me off to practice on my own.

I've given up on skiing, both down hill and cross country. I still snowshoe, though. At least, I hope I do - that it won't be too hard on my new artificial knee and the remaining "real" (arthritic) knee. I'll find out in PT this week what is allowed...

real mountains, yum!

here in se mi they're reclaimed landfills (I kid you not!) but 4 of my grands are really enjoying when they go...

Went one time years ago when I lived in Spain. I did not feel like I was in control. Once kids came along, we never had time or money to go back.

I used to ski a lot! started in elementary school. In the Cascades, the ski areas there. Have been to Squaw Valley, and some smaller ones down there, that I don't remember the names to. And been to Schweitzer, Whistler, Grand Targhee (spelling) Jackson Hole... so much fun. I need to start again! But is is SO much more expensive! lol

Lovely pictures, Glenda. I skied as a kid, mostly at Snoqualmie going for the night skiing session because it was cheaper. I was a little bit nervous about being there at night, but overall the slopes had that white, night-time beauty that I couldn't ignore. In college I went up to Mt. Bachelor a few times, but couldn't afford it very often. I'm afraid to ski now, sure I'd break something!