RonPrice

In my life, from 1944 to 2010, I have engaged in two kinds of skiing: snow and water. Both activities took place during my years of high school from 1958 to 1962. I did some water-skiing at a Bahá'í summer camp in northern Ontario in 1961/2. I also water-skied on other occasions in those high school years but, after the passage of nearly fifty years, I can’t recall when or where.

The fine details of my snow-skiing are also lost to my memory, although I do recall having an injury skiing on snow and deciding not to ever ski again. I also recall owning an old pair of skis and having trouble putting my feet into the stirrups. I recall using my rubber boots, not a very stable piece of footwear; I recall skiing near the town where I grew up in Burlington Ontario. I skied perhaps a dozen times in those five years.

Water-skiing took place in the summer months when school was out: June to September; snow-skiing from December to March. But all this skiing, on water and snow, was far out on the periphery of the sporting life of my teen-age years, a sporting life concentrating on: baseball, hockey and football in organized leagues and informally on the street and in various kids of fields. After half a century it all seems like a dream.-Ron Price, “My Pre-Pioneering Days,” Pioneering Over Four Epochs, 1 March 2010.(250 words