My family and I often head up to the mountains to go skiing multiple times every winter, being from Colorado the mountains were my favorite place to be. I mostly ski at Copper Mountain or Steamboat because my family has owned places there since I was little. Growing up my parents wanted to ensure I was a good skier when I grew up, I was in ski school almost every winter until I was 12. In ski school I met a bunch of new friends who pushed me to become more talented as a skier. My least favorite season was always summer because we weren’t able to ski. Once I became a teenager I started skiing with my school friends rather than my family. My parents had a rule that I had to be able to ski the entire mountain before I could switch to snowboarding, during my Freshman year of high school I switched over to snowboarding. When I was first learning how to snowboard it made me so frustrated, I was able to get down the mountain easily for as long as I could remember, and there I was looking like a beginner all over again. It took me a very long time to learn how to snowboard because I wasn’t able to go to the mountains as often because I was in a Winter weekend lacrosse league for all of high school. This ritual was possible because of how close I lived to the mountains and how easy it was to go stay a weekend at our condo. Now that I am in college out of state I am not able to get to go skiing all winter like I used to. I was beyond lucky because my Grandpa built a cabin in Steamboat way before I was born and this made it
always skiing easily accessible.
