Maxed Out: Be thankful for skiing- Pique News Magazine

November 22, 2024

Whomever you give thanks to, give thanks for the start of the 2024-25 ski season. Not sure about you but I am in dire need of something like skiing to divert what little attention I have left from dwelling on the devolution going on in the world.

Some decades ago, whatever body shills for skiing in Colorado ran a print ad campaign that summed up the magic of skiing as well as anything I’ve ever seen. Naturally it had a wonderful photo of people skiing through small trees and untracked powder, the sun shining above, rooster tails of light, glistening snow billowing out behind them. Perfection.

The print, undoubtedly paraphrased since I don’t have a good enough memory to be certain, was simple: “You can’t do this and think about work at the same time.”

Hallelujah.

Be thankful there is the best opening day snow we’ve had in a long time. Real snow, not the artisanal stuff we’re usually on. Be thankful there are more than six runs open. Be thankful there is some snow and lots of below-0 C temps in the forecast. Be thankful, assuming the Colorado ski ad was right, you can’t ski/board and entertain a single thought about the horrible reality voters in the U.S. have unleashed on the rest of the world. Be thankful we have another two months before the transfer of power peacefully happens.