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    I Hate Ski Lifts
    I Hate Ski Lifts
    I Hate Ski Lifts
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    I Hate Ski Lifts

    By Paul Stevens

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    A humorous look at mastering ski lifts before you can master skiing...

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPaul Stevens
    Release dateDec 29, 2012
    ISBN9781301626854
    I Hate Ski Lifts
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    Paul Stevens

    There is a favorite line from my novella Dinner Party For Eight in which Angela asks Harry:“What do you think I am?”Harry considered this for a moment. What was she actually?“Well I suppose you are a very beautiful cook.”So if I have to answer the same question what am I actually? I would also need to consider this for a moment. I would like to say I’m an ex astronaut, have more degrees than a thermometer, have competed in the Tour de France without any EPO, surfed Teahupoo in Tahiti and emerged unscathed, sailed round the world, am an ace Alpine skier, am a member of Mensa, have a beauty queen wife and gorgeous kids, and started my own corporation which has listed on NASDAQ. I could go on but like Arnold Schwarzenegger I don’t want to boast.Well to be honest, I have gone some of the way towards all those things. I do have a letter from Wernher von Braun, I do have three degrees in Physics, I have flown in a jet plane (Emirates Air), I do cycle the mega steep hills here where I live but unfortunately can’t get EPO anywhere, I am a keen surfer who has almost managed to break his neck, I am an ocean going skipper and I did own my own yacht though if it was me I wouldn’t sail with me as captain, I do ski but you need to get out of the way, I do have a beautiful wife (though her agreeing to marry me has to be my biggest piece of luck ever) and two great kids, I do have my own software business but no stock exchanges alas and I would like to take the Mensa test but I’m pretty sure I would fail and then I wouldn’t be able to live with that so I would rather rationalize. I live in that sapphire city – Cape Town.

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      I Hate Ski Lifts - Paul Stevens

      I Hate Ski Lifts

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      I Hate Ski Lifts

      Just as paddling out to the line up in surfing seemed to be my nemesis when I was learning the sport in my sixties, so ski lifts took on a special sort of dread for me.

      A youngster would have shrugged off the knack of getting on and off these contraptions with barely a twitch of his shoulder.

      As we age, the brain seems to slowly lower the barrier on new experiences and skills.

      In my case, it’s already full of junk a half century old or more and it hasn’t yet sat and taken note of the revolutionary message: things are different now!

      We had flown into Steamboat Springs. A great family orientated Rocky Mountain ski resort in Colorado.

      Right here is one of the reasons I embarked on a first time ski career at the age of 68.

      Sure these trips

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