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Tips for advanced skiers over 50 planning to ski until 80+
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TahoeCruzer
Certified Ski Diva
It is good to hear about options for older skiers. I am 75 and still enjoying skiing very much. I really enjoyed the ski diva trip to Steam Boat Springs last year. I also took several morning clinics for intermediate to advanced skiers at Palisades Alpine and learned a lot. I like skiing with others and lately have found myself with fewer ski buddies. It has been great to meet ski divas to ski with. If you are coming to Palisades or North Star let me know as I would love to meet up with you. I have a lovely chalet in Tahoe City that often has extra spaces. If I am staying there we just share cleaning and utility expenses. If I am not there it is for rent on VRBO and Airbnb, I posted it in the conversation on sharing ski rental houses. I am interested in skiing with others who are advanced intermediate skiers. I especially like steep groomers. I am also open to skiing other places. I have both an EPIC and an IKON pass this year. Let me know if you want to meet up.
Are you going to join in for Diva West 2025? The skiing will mostly be at Alta in late January. I could introduce you to whoever from the Wild Old Bunch is around that week.
Have you skied the groomers at Snowbird? Can be fun for people who like steep groomers. Not much fun for cautious intermediates who are uncomfortable on cat tracks though.
Some inspiration from SeniorSkiing for folks over 70, or 80, or 90+ . . .
December 10, 2024 - bold as published
Short Swings for December - SeniorsSkiing.com
As always, there is plenty of good news at our favorite winter resorts for the end of 2024 and start of 2025. But let’s begin this monthly edition of Short Swings with a warning – don’t hit the person who hit you. On one of the first days of the new season in November, two female […]
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Happy 105th birthday to the legendary Klaus Obermeyer, who started skiing at the age of three in his native Germany. He’s lived in Aspen most of his life, first as a ski instructor, when he realized his students didn’t have the proper clothing. He started Sport Obermeyer in 1947, combining his aeronautical engineering training and the Bavarian tradition of down comforters (my Bavarian-born mother called them “steppedecke”) to design warm parkas and other fashionable and functional clothing we all know and love.
For many of us parents, the best Obermeyer design was his “I-Grow” children’s clothing line, with extendable pants and sleeves that allowed fast-growing kids to wear them for several seasons, as my own kids did.
Obermeyer’s motto is “the longer you ski, the longer you live”. Absolutely!
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During my recent ski safari in Idaho, I saw plenty of senior skiers who have clearly been skiing for decades. Meaning men and women who are probably over 60, if not 70 or 80, mostly skiing in the mornings. However, with good snow there were also seniors who showed up after lunch time because of spring skiing conditions that meant the optimal timeframe for good snow conditions was 10:30-2:30. Some small groups with co-ed but there were plenty of small groups of senior women as well.
Fair to say that following a group of seniors was the best way to learn which section or groomer had the best snow conditions when I was checking out a mountain for the first time. Also the best way to find where to boot up inside the lodge. Worked out well at Bogus Basin. There is a locker room in the lodge at the main base with benches and private lockers. I checked with a grandfather helping his granddaughter get ready to confirm that leaving a boot bag under a bench was fine. We arrived early enough that no one had done that yet. Plus most locals booted up in the parking lot.
There were quite a few seniors with grandchildren of all ages and abilities.
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Junior turns 100 today! Happy Birthday Junior! (maybe this needs it's own thread?)
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Junior turns 100 today! Happy Birthday Junior! (maybe this needs it's own thread?)
4.3K views · 59 reactions | Happy 100th Birthday to Junior Bounous! Born August 24, 1925, Junior isn’t just turning 100—he’s celebrating a lifetime of shaping American skiing. From hand-cutting Snowbird’s first trails to leading its Mountain School
Happy 100th Birthday to Junior Bounous! Born August 24, 1925, Junior isn’t just turning 100—he’s celebrating a lifetime of shaping American skiing. From hand-cutting Snowbird’s first trails to...
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Local stories about Junior when he was over 98.
August 24, 2025
townlift.com
May 2024
@diymom and I had a delightful short conversation with him in January one morning during Diva West at Alta. We were outside the Albion Basin locker room. I noticed his PSIA gold pin and asked about it. Turned out he was waiting for someone to bring him his skis. His goal was to ski his age. I learned in April that didn't happen, mostly because he was sick for a few weeks some time in Feb-Mar.
August 24, 2025
Godfather of powder skiing, Junior Bounous turns 100 - TownLift, Park City News
The Utah native and Little Cottonwood Canyon denizen pioneered the modern-day technique of skiing pow and he's still out there doing it.
townlift.com
May 2024
@diymom and I had a delightful short conversation with him in January one morning during Diva West at Alta. We were outside the Albion Basin locker room. I noticed his PSIA gold pin and asked about it. Turned out he was waiting for someone to bring him his skis. His goal was to ski his age. I learned in April that didn't happen, mostly because he was sick for a few weeks some time in Feb-Mar.
sdskiqueen
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
I will be turning 70 this coming January. I went through a divorce last season from a 25-year marriage. When I left my ex-husband, I told him it was over and I wasn't coming back and took up residence at our condo in Keystone, Colorado. I work remotely as a paralegal, but am putting less and less time in because I don't want the stress that job brings. I applied on-line for a ski instructor position at Keystone and amazingly was accepted. I will be a ski instruction at my home resort, Keystone this season because I wanted to meet new people doing what I love to do - ski! I will ski for as long as I take a breath and in the off season stay in shape with yoga, biking, hiking and workouts in the gym. I will be heli-skiing on my 70th birthday this season (something that my ex-husband and I were supposed to do but never did). For me, the key is to stay active, keep moving. I lost a husband, a job and a person that I thought was one of my dearest friends that I've known for over 40 years. I continue to hold on to my passion of skiing. You can't control so many things in life, but I will never give up skiing!
The 70 Plus Ski Club has an annual trip to Big Sky. For the upcoming season, they will be there in early February. In 2015, a medical professional who specializes in dementia was an invited speaker. She was blown away at how active the folks over 70 or even 80 were on and off the slopes. While she is a skier, she's based in Alabama so doesn't live in ski country where it's easy to find seniors on the slopes essentially every midweek morning (Mon-Thu).
March 2015
janetrichpittman.com
March 2015
70Plus Ski Club…Are you a Member? – Janet Rich Pittman
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liquidfeet
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
I just joined this club for $15. I may not use its trips this year but I want the patch for my ski jacketThe 70 Plus Ski Club has an annual trip to Big Sky. For the upcoming season, they will be there in early February. In 2015, a medical professional who specializes in dementia was an invited speaker. She was blown away at how active the folks over 70 or even 80 were on and off the slopes. While she is a skier, she's based in Alabama so doesn't live in ski country where it's easy to find seniors on the slopes essentially every midweek morning (Mon-Thu).
March 2015
70Plus Ski Club…Are you a Member? – Janet Rich Pittman
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AJM
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
I had the pleasure of skiing today with my son's old woodwork teacher who's president of our local "One foot in the Grave Ski Club" and his inspirational 92 year old friend who was absolutely putting me to shame in the chopped up powder .... GOALS !! I'm not quite ready to rock the patch just yet but I certainly will be in the not so distant future !!I just joined this club for $15. I may not use its trips this year but I want the patch for my ski jacket
Came across the blog of a "geezer skier" that was started in 2009. He's a retired professor in central New York State who turned 90 recently. Apparently there was/is a geezer ski club at Greek Peak. For them, the definition of a "ski day" requires six runs. Greek trails are fairly short, with total vertical about 950 ft.
February 2025
www.geezerskier.com
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A bonus for this day from yesterday was the appearance of two of our long time geezer skiers for a day of fun and coffee with the rest of us. Gene Wexell who has challenges with vision was happy to join us. He is basically ahead of me a bit on the age thing since he is past 90 by a bit, and I will reach that milestone in April, 2025. We also welcome our good friend Dick Botoff, for his first day back this season, delighted to see his return. My endnote is that it was great to have an expanded geezer skier group on the slopes today and to toast the memory of our recently passed founder Pat Ryan, of the Tough Old Geezer Skiers of Greek Peak Resort at our day end coffee time."
February 2025
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Amazing how the day on the slopes can change from one day to the next. My geezer plus group at Greek Peak yesterday was skiing in a b...
A bonus for this day from yesterday was the appearance of two of our long time geezer skiers for a day of fun and coffee with the rest of us. Gene Wexell who has challenges with vision was happy to join us. He is basically ahead of me a bit on the age thing since he is past 90 by a bit, and I will reach that milestone in April, 2025. We also welcome our good friend Dick Botoff, for his first day back this season, delighted to see his return. My endnote is that it was great to have an expanded geezer skier group on the slopes today and to toast the memory of our recently passed founder Pat Ryan, of the Tough Old Geezer Skiers of Greek Peak Resort at our day end coffee time."
Are you 70 @liquidfeet ?? Blow me over with a snowflake! Will you be skiing The Nutt again this year? If so, I'd love to do some turns w/you. Cheers and think snow.I just joined this club for $15. I may not use its trips this year but I want the patch for my ski jacket
liquidfeet
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
I'm 75.Are you 70 @liquidfeet ?? Blow me over with a snowflake! Will you be skiing The Nutt again this year? If so, I'd love to do some turns w/you. Cheers and think snow.
@liquidfeet Thanks for reminding me about this group -- I just joined, too, for the same reasonI just joined this club for $15. I may not use its trips this year but I want the patch for my ski jacket
liquidfeet
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
The patch is tiny. Oh well. Now I need to decide which jacket to put it on.@liquidfeet Thanks for reminding me about this group -- I just joined, too, for the same reason
Maybe I'll put it on my helmet instead.
You can put velcro on the back and a velcro sticky on the jacket so you can switch it to different jackets, if you want to. I only have one jacket at a time, so I won't have that problem, LOL.
