As I believe I threatened a few days ago, I bring you the best photo taken during the latter years of my skiing days. The image taken by a friend of mine in the Navy in the mid 60s. For those of you who are my FB friends, you can see this in one of my photo albums there. For the rest of you -
http://gallery.me.com/jomac#100563/Joseph-20McAllister-20in-20skiing-20form-&bgcolor=black Skied one more time after this, primarily because of knee injuries making it uncomfortable, and really dangerous. That was in about 1992 in the Cascade Mountains of Washington with my sisters Lucinda and Ada. Took an hour or two before I was able to go back to parallel form, which was as far as I ever went form wise. Whenever I see modern skiers on TV hitting moguls at full speed, I wince every time they flex their knees up to their shoulders to keep their body from moving around much. On Sep 19, 2011, at 16:52 , Stan Halpin wrote: > On Sep 19, 2011, at 5:38 PM, steve harley wrote: > >> on 2011-09-19 16:26 Stan Halpin wrote >>> You can probably buy crutches in all sizes in those same stores . . . >> >> not sure what your point is — perhaps to disparage thrift stores? — but >> indeed, that was where i got some of those fancy crutches pro athletes use >> for my partner when she broke her foot > > Not at all intended to be disparaging of the thrift stores. Love 'em, use > them all the time on both sides of the counter. My wife was volunteer manager > for one for several years. My point was that stores with much used ski > equipment are probably reaping donations from former skiers who decided to > give up their skis etc. at the same time that they took their crutches in. Joseph McAllister [email protected] “ The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” — Kevan Olesen -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
