All posts tagged skiing

Compliment or Insult: Skiing Edition

“It doesn’t matter how slow you ski as long as you look good doing it!” Are you saying I ski slow? Or that I look good skiing? Or both? Compliment or Insult?

Grown-Up Ski Boots

I have finally graduated from my baby learner ski boots (roomy junior-sized, lots of flex), to big-kid boots! Check out my new Nordica Hell and Back Hike EXP Ski Boot … that means I’m an EXPert!!   This is the link to them … they were listed on GearTrade.com, where you buy gear and sell [...]

Learn something new! [video]

Athletic pursuits have made up my life since at least junior high, when I really started caring about basketball. I focused on that sport pretty quickly, and got to be pretty good at it. My identity has since at least partially been defined by being an athlete, so when it came time to learn something [...]

Feel Good Friday 033012

Feel Good Friday is a roundup of the things that made me feel good or that I’m grateful for all week. Join me and leave your Feel Goods in the comments! The Hunger Games movie. Intense. Skiing and boarding all four mountains in four days: Aspen, Buttermilk, Snowmass, and Highlands. I’m pretty lucky. Best cupcake [...]

Play Hooky & Ski Week

Lift ticket sale site Liftopia declared this week Play Hooky & Ski week, an edict I can fully stand behind. If you’re lucky enough to be near a ski resort, do it!

Feel Good Friday 030212

Feel Good Friday is a roundup of the things that made me feel good or that I’m grateful for all week. Join me and leave your Feel Goods in the comments! Holy crap it’s March. That actually doesn’t make me feel good, but DailyHap‘s first month birthday is pretty awesome! The best skiing day I’ve [...]

Leap Day!

What are you going to do on Leap Day?! In the British Isles, it is a tradition that women may propose marriage only on leap years. Supposedly, a 1288 law by Queen Margaret of Scotland (then age five and living in Norway), required that fines be levied if a marriage proposal was refused by the man … compensation ranged from a [...]

Feel Good Friday 021712

Feel Good Friday is a roundup of the things that made me feel good or that I’m grateful for all week. Join me and leave your Feel Goods in the comments! Get the Girls Out for SheJumps.org … every single one of the awesomely-dressed girls I skied with is a better skier than me, so [...]

Feel Good Friday 012712 [updated]

Feel Good Friday is a roundup of the things that made me feel good or that I’m grateful for all week. Join me and leave your Feel Goods in the comments! Epic ski weekend last weekend. Lessons, pow, hot tubs, friends, double-blacks … oh yeah. This paleo-ish cookie recipe. It’s amazingly delicious, memorized, and so [...]

Aspen: X Games 2012 … it’s all about the music

Last year I was super psyched to go to X Games and really surprised no one would go with me! … then I went. … and now, I will probably not ever go again either. (I also happen to be in Park City this weekend, yay!) It’s awesome, yes, that X Games are in Aspen. [...]