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Years on DCSki by Jim Kenney
Awesome article Jim!
I’m also a ski dad and hope to do a lot of what you’ve done, visiting resorts all over the country, when I retire. I love skiing out west, but also want to ski many of the mountains in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine too.
Great Read!
Congrats on a life well lived!
Hoorah!
Nice read, Jim. I've enjoyed reading your articles for 20 years now. I've also enjoyed meeting and skiing with the members of this community, especially at the Mid-A Gatherings and house shares you often organized. Those days are among the best ski days I've experienced. Thank you Scott for keeping the light on here. This site has enriched the lives of many of us in ways you could not have imagined.
The Crazie Family at Snowbird. Photo by Jim Kenney.
Thank you Jim for sharing your passion with us for all these years.
Denis
Jim - you have been blessed with a great ski and family life. I always enjoy your articles. A few questions:
- Have you ever had a serious ski injury?
- How did you get your writing skills?
Thanks for the positive comments folks.
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Snowsmith, No one in my family has ever had a serious ski injury. I don't like to talk about this for fear of invoking a jinx. It's been a combination of luck and luck :-) Vince has broken both thumbs at different times in last decade, but skied through recovery both times. In April of 2023 I caught an edge and went down hard on left shoulder. Thought I might have a partial separation. Got x-rayed and it was just a mild sprain. Returned to skiing (gingerly) after one week rest. I ski a variety of terrain including double black diamonds, but I generally ski fairly slow and ever more so as I get older.
Writing: for 30 years as a federal civil service employee and a few more as a Defense contractor I did a lot of writing while interpreting and applying USG regulations/policies relating to Defense Trade Controls. On a daily basis I wrote recommendations requiring identification of a specific issue, analysis of the pros and cons of that issue, and a conclusion on how to deal with the issue. It was a pretty straight jump from that to writing recommendations on what I thought about various ski areas or ski activities :-)
I believe I have very typical interests as a skier, so anything I find useful, important, or enjoyable is likely to be the same for many other skiers/boarders. It helps to really love what you are writing about and I am also motivated by positive feedback. My trick with photos is that I just take a lot and there are bound to be occasional good ones. There is a trademark of mine in LHC's nice family photo above. Whenever I take a ski photo with people in it, especially a static one, I try to include all or nearly all of folks ski equipment, so people know they are skiers, not just random people standing in the snow.
snowsmith wrote:
Jim - you have been blessed with a great ski and family life. I always enjoy your articles. A few questions:
- Have you ever had a serious ski injury?
- How did you get your writing skills?
Thanks for sharing!
When is the coffee table book coming out? :-)
Jim for president ! oh wait, too late.
Thanks much for all those articles, comments, and messages. At the risk of sentiment, it does indeed become like family. TBH, the ski community is surprisingly welcoming, unlike some other expensive sports I could mention! 'Till we meet again !
edit. I just re-read that article on family ski trips and saw that old photo of my son Walker. Now I'm getting sentimental thinking all those trips and details. Oatmeal cookies forever!
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