Your pics skiing as kid/teenager

[missyd]

Maybe we can share some pics taken when we where very young and skiing.

This one was taken in January 1969 by my dad. Thats one of our slope we skied if there was enough snow. Its behind the appartment house we lived. As you can see the slope is nearly flat. I do like the pose .... its perfect for downhill racing ....

 

[ski diva]

Great thread! Love your pic, missyd!

This is the only ski picture I have from me as a kid, and if I wasn't holding ski poles you probably wouldn't even know it had anything to do with skiing. But this is from the first ski trip I ever took waaaay back in 1968. I was 13, and what you can't tell from the pic is that 1) I'm wearing jeans, and 2) my jacket is hot, psychedelic pink.

By the way, check out the guy in the background. The skis are way over his head.

 

[Jenny]

Adorable - both of you!

(I can't participate in the thread since I didn't start skiing until my 30's. But I'm looking forward to the other pictures . . .)

 

[altagirl]

I asked my parents if they could find any last year - I was hoping for a pic of the infamous purple puffy sleeve jacket... but no luck.

 

[Jilly]

One of my summer projects is to go through all the slides and organize. I'm liable to find something in there. After they are organized it's off to DVD land!

 

[missyd]

One of my summer projects is to go through all the slides and organize. I'm liable to find something in there. After they are organized it's off to DVD land!

Its my winter project .... I already scanned some 500 slides my dad shoot from the 50ties till he died .... and some 2-3000 are still waiting ....

 

[nopoleskier]

skiing as a kid

here you go this was me racing in Yikes Jeans! Tupper Lake 1975
don't know if my attachment worked
YEAH it's Snowing at My house this am.

 

[little one]

hilarious nopoleskier! love it!

 

[missyd]

here you go this was me racing in Yikes Jeans! ....

I used to ski in Jeans in the 70ties ... even when it was very cold! Today I would die of hypothermia if I go skiing in jeans!

 

[Snowflower]

I love this thread! I wish I had some photos of my Sr class ski trip in 1980...we were quite stylish. We came from Oklahoma on a sleeper bus to Purgatory and for most of us it was our first time skiing. I've seen some photos of the trip but don't own any myself. Probably just as well, since I wince when I think of it!

 

[geargrrl]

I learned to XC before I learned Alpine.
Here's me on a backcountry ski trip out of Yosemite, overlooking Tenaya lake, Feb 1980:

On the snow creek trail out of Yosemite Valley

 

[nopoleskier]

early skiing photos

Nice! Don't you love the early wood skis too!! Raise your arm and take the longest ones! lol- Beautiful photos, I love/miss Yosemite, it is awesome,
Here's more laughs.. have another hoot...check the styling 1974 race photo, for xc we used the Boys Football uniform pants! and those cheesy leather boots with no insulation brrrrrr.... Can't believe I did this for 'fun'! I wish I had the photo of when I wore my dads wool socks over my xc boots to try and keep from frostbite (didn't work) thank goodness for modern technology toe warmers etc!!

 

[ski diva]

Anyone else have any more of these to share?

 

[mollmeister]

Unfortunately, I was a teen skier in the era of neon clothes + white, fuzzy accessories.

:(

Me, circa 1988, when I was 16yo:

My older son, wearing a headband I used to wear back in those same days. He thinks it's hilarious. . . and so do I!

I need to find and scan some pictures of me when I was about 11yo, skiing in CB jackets and scotchguarded jeans at a tiny hill in southern MI. Off to look!

 

[missyd]

Very nice pics!!!! I'm shure you all have more of them laying around!!!

 

[evaino]

Wow - I can't believe I actually found these...and am willing to share them...

The first was my first year skiing and I remember hating my ski suit - for obvious reasons...

And was so excited to trade them in for everyone's favourite from the 80s - stretch pants!

Elsbeth

 

[pinto]

My older son, wearing a headband I used to wear back in those same days. He thinks it's hilarious. . . and so do I!

Okay, that brings back a memory, but a fuzzy one. I had something in that pattern. Not that headband, but maybe a sweater? Or a hat? Oh, the cobwebs, the fog ...

I'm going to have to go raid my parents' house. I'm not sure I have any pics of the really good stuff, but I'll look. My favorite was the first "grownup" outfit I had (ie, non-bib): a yellow down Gerry parka -- belted, natch -- and navy stretch pants with the rainbow stripes down the leg, and of course the rainbow suspenders. This was before "Mork and Mindy," by the way. I did find the matching hat recently:

I was hoping I could wear it again, with retro and pompoms back in, but it's just not cut quite right. Just looks dorky. And no fleece-lined inside, either! itchy! (the moth hole steeze is there, though)

 

[missyd]

Some more pictures from the 70ties!!!

^^ my sister .... Grindelwald

^^ me in ski school ... Grindelwald

^^ me (back to camera), sister, my cousin in red jacket and uncle with fur hat .... Grindelwald Kleine Scheidegg.
Look at the skis and boots!!!!!! I can't understand how we could ski with this equipment!!!!!

^^ Mom, siter and I .... we had a rented appartment in this house.
Look at the ski boots .... laced-up, leather ski boots ... my oh my ... Grindelwald

 

[koski]

Wow - great pics ladies, what fun! It will take awhile to dig out my old pics - I think the best I have is from the 80's although I did first ski in the 70's in the Midwest on Friday nights (borrowed leather boots and jeans too!) brings back great memories!

 

[marge]

These are SO cool! :D There are no pictures of my early days that I know of. :( I LOVE seeing all those old pictures though! :D