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.”