For Sunday, January 11th

Steven, Skiing trip

Pic about 1981

 

Steven

Steven having fun

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This was a Helicopter Skiing trip 

to Cananda. Here's Steven & Patti.

The Helicopter takes groups up the mountain and drops them off.

Mike, Steven, David A. were in the top group,

they had a vertical drop at about 120,000 vertical feet.

Patti and I were in the slow group, we had 80,000 vertical feet. 

The Helicopter company get paid on the drop distance.

We were doing runs of 4,000 vertical feet. Squaw Valley has a drop of about 2000.  

When we would get to the bottom of these long runs I would hope for a rest, but a copter would have us at the top in a very few minutes. My legs were like jelly.