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Carol Perkins: The Ski Trip (Part 2 of 5) Previous Column: The Ski Trip (Part 1 of 5) By Carol Perkins Guy, Judy, and I stepped apprehensively out the back door of the resort and into the brisk night air, wearing our ski boots and carrying our skis. One of the group members who knew how to ski volunteered to give us a few necessary instructions. "One thing to remember is that when you fall, you can't get back up unless you pop your skis from the ski boot. Then, when you're up, you can put the boot back into the ski. However, don't let that ski get away from you or it will get to the bottom without you." She effortlessly demonstrated how to pop the skis. We pretended to understand. You know how you take off your tennis shoes without untying them by placing the right shoe behind the left shoe and giving it a "pop"? That was the idea. With my skis resting over one shoulder, I made mental notes: fall, pop skis off, get up, pop skis back on, and don't let skis get away. Hmmm, getting up was going to be the problem, since on any day I had to crawl to the edge of the couch to lift myself off the floor. One look down the Bunny Slope, I knew we were in trouble. It made a forty-five-degree turn around a clump of trees, so we didn't know what we were facing on the other side. "We can't ski down that slope. If we get started, we might end up on 1-71," I said to my best friend. We hadn't learned the art of stopping at that point. Something about turning your body to the side. "We can walk down the first slope until we can see in front of us," she said. Where was Guy? As soon as he lined up his skis and tilted them downward, he was gone with nothing but the wind behind him. Let me describe this man-made snow. First, we saw no snow. The lights were shining on nothing but ice. The man-made snow had obviously thawed and iced over, making the slope look like a two-lane highway with soft, treacherous edges that drivers tried to avoid. We walked down the hill in the slushy ditch alongside the ice, barely able to raise each leg. Walk was the wrong word. We dragged our feet in our heavy boots and carried our skis over our shoulders. A Hallmark teaser of what would follow. More to come... Share your thoughts with Carol at carolperkins06@gmail.com, or with CM readers using our Comment Form. This story was posted on 2026-01-03 15:18:05
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