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November 2010 Skiing Archive

Opening Day

SNOWBIRD, UT — For the new ski season, in light of the fact that I added 20 pounds while living in Boston for most of the past year, I needed to purchase new ski pants to accomodate my additional girth. I bought a nice pair of gray North Face ski pants to replace a pair I had worn for the past 11 or 12 seasons (not counting two days in high school ski club when I forgot said ski pants and had to wear the jeans I wore to school those days, and one day at Killington when I similarly forgot said pants and ended up purchasing a new pair, skied in them for that day, and then returned them at the end of the day--a deed that perhaps serves as a source of bad karma that manifests itself today in my boot fitting maladies).

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