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Taking a cue from the 2016 presidential election, Dave Kulberg, Brian Sewell, Ben Ozzello, and James Moon (left to right) took to the streets of Steamboat Springs this November to protest the lack of early season snow in the Colorado high country. You might say they’re staunch “Dump” supporters. Maybe it worked. Steambot received 13 inches of snow as this issue of 32 Degrees went to press on November 17.
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n this particular day I was assigned a private lesson. “Whoopeee!, I thought. I get to the counter and see a young girl holding onto her mother’s leg, crying. Maybe not so much whoopee.
I’m told she has new skis and doesn’t like them. And that the previous year she was skiing all over. We head out for the bunny slope to make the best of it. She moves away from me as far as she thinks she can without getting in trouble.
Once she sees I am not chasing her, she slowly stops crying. She skis down; I follow. I let this repeat for a few runs, and each time I get a little closer. She is now relaxed and even having some fun. I ask her if she can ski like a bunny. After a little thought, she asks how a bunny skis. I hop down the slope and she follows. I then ask her what other animal we can ski like, and she suggests “A fox. Foxes go fast.” I tell her they go real slow to sneak up on their prey, then fast to catch it. We ski like a fox and fi nally she shows some control, instead of the straight runs she was doing. At the bottom she announces she caught three deer. We ski like a few more animals. By now she is laughing. Our lesson time is almost over, and a crying child has turned into one having
a great time. I’m feeling pretty good. I say, “Okay, one more animal… what should we be?” She replies, “A skunk,” to which I admit “I’m at a loss; how does a skunk ski?” She starts down the hill and says, “T ey stick their butts up”, which she does… laughing all the way down. Best lesson ever; I learned to ski like a skunk.
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