Live in Vail, Don't Ski?

If you live in a resort town, you go skiing or snowboarding, right? Not always.

The Vail Daily News finds a few residents of the Vail area who don't ski much--or at all.

Why don't they?

Sometimes it's different outdoors interests:

"The Louisiana native has lived in Colorado for six years, but it was horses, not skiing, that brought him here ...."

For some, it's the inability to shake a bad memory:

"Her last day on skis was when she was 16. It was freezing, she said, and she remembers sliding down the mountain on her rear end."

I suppose that's why, she says "It hasn't been very appealing to me." But one bad experience? That's all it takes for some.

"It just wasn't a very good day," she said.

Finally there's always the fear of getting injured:

"When Werner moved here after college, he worked in a physical therapy office. Exposure to people with ski injuries there turned him off to skiing, he said."

This individual, however, avoids the possibility of ski injuries by ... ice climbing.

Ice climbing?

Now that sounds like something risky.

There are some downsides to not skiing or riding, besides the obvious: "One drawback? He doesn't get to skip out of work for the morning on powder days."