Addiction!!

Apparently the first rule of addiction is admiting the addiction...
I only started skiing 5 years ago and have managed about 8 weeks skiing so far. This year I cant even ski as I'm recovering from ACL reconstruction on my right knee from a skiing fall last winter and wont ski untill next winter. :( :(
BUT.....every day I open my laptop and spend hours on J2ski reading over every post and loving the banter between the regulars (I have been on J2ski for a few years but dont post to often,prefering to read and laugh)and checking the snow reports for every resort I have ever been to. I constantly check for cheap air fares to various european airports near the slopes even though i know I cant go for at least 10 months!! I can't pass TK MAX without checking to see if they have any hidden gems in the ski section and cant stop buying ski jackets,trousers and anything else that I just have to have. Whenever anyone of my friends tells me that there thinking of going skiing I always tell them that I'll sort it for them just to feel like I'm a bit nearer to the slopes. When I'm doing my exercises to help with the knee rehab I constantly wonder if I'll still be able to carve off my right side and if I will continue to improve or will I be left as a intermediate who can get down anything but really need a lesson or 2 to improve my technique??
As I type this I'm watching the skiing on eurosport and can sit for hours watching Nomads on Rush HD and be in awe of the kind of skiing I hope one day I will be able to do myself.
I could continue and bore everyone to death about this addiction but I have a small hunch that I'm not alone.......
Am I???

Bless your wee cotton socks!!

are you me in disguise :shock:?

Your are not alone........

:D

Gareth Fair wrote:Apparently the first rule of addiction is admiting the addiction...
I only started skiing 5 years ago and have managed about 8 weeks skiing so far. This year I cant even ski as I'm recovering from ACL reconstruction on my right knee from a skiing fall last winter and wont ski untill next winter. :( :(
BUT.....every day I open my laptop and spend hours on J2ski reading over every post and loving the banter between the regulars (I have been on J2ski for a few years but dont post to often,prefering to read and laugh)and checking the snow reports for every resort I have ever been to. I constantly check for cheap air fares to various european airports near the slopes even though i know I cant go for at least 10 months!! I can't pass TK MAX without checking to see if they have any hidden gems in the ski section and cant stop buying ski jackets,trousers and anything else that I just have to have. Whenever anyone of my friends tells me that there thinking of going skiing I always tell them that I'll sort it for them just to feel like I'm a bit nearer to the slopes. When I'm doing my exercises to help with the knee rehab I constantly wonder if I'll still be able to carve off my right side and if I will continue to improve or will I be left as a intermediate who can get down anything but really need a lesson or 2 to improve my technique??
As I type this I'm watching the skiing on eurosport and can sit for hours watching Nomads on Rush HD and be in awe of the kind of skiing I hope one day I will be able to do myself.
I could continue and bore everyone to death about this addiction but I have a small hunch that I'm not alone.......
Am I???

Were we separated at birth?

Gareth Fair,
Try this for addiction.

In the Summer in my hammock, I close my eyes and ski from very top to bottom a favorite ski run.
I can "visualize" each turn, each drop, each slope dip and roll!

I can have beside me my best skiing friend and I will describe to him a run we did several months ago and mention the missed turn he did, the faster section he did and that glorious tight tight fall line section where he was just at the edge!!!

Is not this "addiction" wonderful!

This "addiction" also has its positive side. I once was in a medical "contraption" which is very much a tiny tunnel made up of wires, steel and electronic sensors. Most people are given dedatives since they panic.
I fell "asleep" during the 30 minutes in this womb!
How?
I went into my ski "world" and replayed a great powder ski run I had that lasted 15 minutes of chest high Utah champagne!
It is my "escape" during boring meetings, tense dangerous situations,and such,,,,

Thanks for your post,,I was begining to think I was the only one!
Pavel

Gareth I agree one hunderd percent but for me it is not just the skiing, skiing is an enourmous passion for me , but just being in the mountains brings a tingle to my spine.
Sitting out in the cold warm sunshine sipping something enjoyable watching the mountain shadows under the changing light is just beautiful.
I'm getting all soppy, still only 22 days to go till my next fix....... :P

where you off to ian? 3 weeks today hit the big N and i am looking at mo trying to find something for april