Art's Skiing Pictures

Lake Placid, NY, home of 1976 winter Olympics.

Matt & Joe Gehrike, ski buddies. 2 Ski jump ramps, big and bigger.

Me logging much-needed airtime. 12 feet high?

Steamboat Ski Resort, Colorado, 1990. Steamboat Ranch, near a hot springs park.

United Airlines pilot happily giving me the finger (on my cue of course).

Picturesque powder--26 inches that day. Reiner puffing through a double black diamond slope. Don't lose your ski-poles. You'll never find it.

Jeanine McElligott, UIC Physical Therapy Student and friends. Dumb snowblower laborers blowing snow over each other's path out on the restaurant porch. Me and a snowmobile.

Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico, 1988

Army ROTC buddy, Dave Sierakowsky, near New Mexican nuclear silos.

"OK, Oklahoma, here we come." Lebanon, Oklahoma. Dave and I on top of sign to New Mexico.

Tom Trotter caught napping & pissing by his Delta 88 babemobile.

Kirtland Air Force Base (part of the old Military Air Command). Dave=Army ROTC, me=Air Force ROTC. Our affordable base accommodations at Bachelor Officer's Quarters (BOQ), $6 per night. We had preferred access. Tom knew this girl who's dad was CO of the base.

Sandia Peak, home of the longest cable tramway in the world (3 miles). Hazardous hiking trails, one-foot pathways with sheer cliff drops below, and bears, to watch the sunset. That was a Big Mistake, because it was dark, cold and thin aired (exhausting) at night, and we did not have flashlights nor survival gear. We almost did not find our way back to safety. If we didn't make it back before closing, we'd have been in trouble.

Taos Ski resort, home of some of the toughest Double Black Diamond hills in the States. Most of these are only the "Blue" runs.

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