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nhskier69

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I was fortunate enough a few years back to make a couple of runs with Henri Borel, owner of Chez Henri at Sugarbush Vermont. He is over 90 years old and skis over a hundred days a year.
 

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I was fortunate enough a few years back to make a couple of runs with Henri Borel, owner of Chez Henri at Sugarbush Vermont. He is over 90 years old and skis over a hundred days a year.
Love this. I sold wine to him for his restaurant 30 years ago. And more recently - maybe four years ago - had dinner there and got the full over-the-top maître d'hôtel treatment from him, to my astonishment. He offered to take pics of me and Ms. Eeyore. Figured he must be long gone. Nope.
 

Uncle-A

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I was fortunate enough a few years back to make a couple of runs with Henri Borel, owner of Chez Henri at Sugarbush Vermont. He is over 90 years old and skis over a hundred days a year.
I have never met him but God Bless anyone that still skis at 90.
 

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Team Johnson. Maybe not famous but their fun.
 

Uncle-A

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Memorable Ski "Characters"

Who has memories of unusual people you've encountered on the slopes? Regular joes, inspirational grandmas, strangers, family, celebs, knuckleheads, etc. . Bonus points if you have photographic evidence.

I'll start with a few that are not terribly profound, mostly just regular folks that I bumped into and had photos to illustrate.

Friendly bearded guy I met at Wildcat, NH in March 2010. Didn't spend that long talking, just thought he really represented a salt-of-the-earth New England skier and it was a pretty day at one of my favorite ski areas. TonyS tells me he's using unusual bindings made by an inventor from Maine.
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Really BIG Steelers fan on the vintage 1964 double chair at Blue Knob, PA photo taken 2009.
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Volant skier named Jan at Sugar Bowl, CA, Jan 2013. I rode a chair with Jan, in center. We laughed over fact that we're both on old Volant skis. He was a 77 yr old Czech who had emigrated to US during political turmoil in 1960s and had done well. Still doing day trips to Sugar Bowl from Bay area.
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Michael's Marriage proposal to Josephine at top of Jackson Hole tram Feb 2015 during Gathering. This unfolded next to me while I was sitting on a rock eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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75 yr old Bob at Hunter Mtn, NY in March 2014. Skied with Bob for about 2 hours, he had a lot of interesting stories from 50 years of skiing Hunter. Big fan of Izzy Slutsky.
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Probably the most enthusiastic ski area marketing guy I've ever met was Eric Friedman at MRG, dang good skier too. Photo from Jan 2010.
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A bunch of us bumped into Gary Nate in the Snowbasin, UT lodge last year (center, standing). He was ready to talk our ears off.
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Gary was the camera man who caught this near death sequence at Grand Targhee, WY of the Egan Brothers featured in the 1990 film Extreme Winter:
If @Jim Kenney wouldn't mind I think we could add ski nicknames that are characteristic of these interesting individuals. Most of us have a friend called Moose but what other nicknames are skiing?
 

Guy in Shorts

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I'd still like to ski a couple laps with Billy Kidd. Not likely to happen this lifetime but that would be quite cool.
One of my heroes in this photo rides his board over 4 million vertical feet a season at Killington. The other Green Mountain Boy with the cowboy hat moved out West years ago. Steamboat I think. Lots of things are possible if you show up to the mountain everyday.


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