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Originally Posted by alfromcolorado
I had some good times there and the price was right for training and Spass.
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I couldn't resist piggy backing on to this thread as soon as I saw "Spass." Also, I've done lots of skiing with the 10th, but never in Colorado - I just can't relate - but when I saw that we were talking about the land of the mammoth mogels (you could hide a Volkswagen in those things), I had to though in my zwei phinnings worth.
I went to Germany from Texas back in the dark ages - not knowing nothing about snow.
But since I arrived in January, it was just about two weeks before I found myself on a mountain, skis on my feet and looking a broken leg right in the eye. I'm not kidding about the leg - I only lasted 3 days before I broke it - it was actually inevitable. The one good thing about breaking a leg (and this is where some of the Spass comes in), while the team was out skiing, I was back at the Gasthaus, leg propped up on a chair, hangin out with the frauleins practicing some Deutsch and learnin that I liked dunkles bier besser als helles (still do, but now, I just drink Shiner).
About that piggy back thing - I posted the following on the thread about climbing skins - but it fits here pretty well too. Obviously, I came back the next year and actually learned how to ski. I also learned that I liked a Radlermass as the first drink of the evening after a long hard day skiing – a real thirst quencher! It's a full liter (that’s the mass) – half light-colored beer (helles) and half Lemon-lime sodapop). I know it sounds bad, but it is really pretty good.
Mitch
I first used the skins in 1973 - our little motley crew started up to the top of the Sneibstein (we were in Germany when we started) spent the night in the Sneibstein Haus, right on the German/Austrian border; the following morning we proceded to invade Austria - to the top of that mountain. Used the black seal skins all the way up.
They worked ok - but getting down was a lot quicker, a lot more fun with the skins in the ruck, but scarier. We did lose Ralph on the way back down (fell off a cliff) - but that just helped him to get down quicker, though he never saw his skis or ploes again. He and his best bud did the one pole one ski trick the rest of the way down.
Mitch
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