Any Sport That Doesn T Depend Upon the Weather, Has No Soul * Mark Gibson

OVERHEARD “Any sport that doesn’t depend upon the weather, has no soul” Dr. Mark Gibson, lover of canaan “Skipper, I know you real well” “Sometimes when I leave, it snows here” * long time wg season pass holder, Hal Schilbe “Every time I see a flake, I think of you guys” Dave Rolls, Mineral County, WV skiing sheriff “Get down, be down, and stay down” NATO tele movie VIRGA-evaporating before hitting the ground high cloud form of precip “I thought that this place was supposed to be laid back” “If you don’t like whitegrass, you shouldn’t be on skis” “Downhill skiing is a lot less work and more exhilarating”, Jennifer, a beautiful gal along 3 mile “only you could squeeze a snowflake from a cow pie” Sue Haywood from Arizona “Telemarketer, I was one for a while” Jennifer “Mom, it won’t be long before you’re the worst skier in the family” “I have never had so much fun on a pair of skis in my life” NATO tele skier, Michele Ewing “My kid is out in car wanting to know when we can move here” Ed and Diane from C’ville, Va… their boy liked my Donald duck and guitar n’ harp work in the café “Finially got some snow to shovel” * true, but you shoulda been on the snowfarm all this winter! “…and we got stuck” this kid’s one comment on a snow filled canaan weekend “I never get skunked when I come here” Mac Thornton “I got a whole season in on one weekend!” * Actually close - tiny bit of snow to powder paradise and in between… “We’re family, not good friends” “I came down the drift line, it was beautiful, man” Gary Berti in a daze “I skied down the face, THAT was a BIG mistake” “Somebody get out the blood pressure cuff” “It’s like going to dual suspension on a mtnbike” * Greg McWilliams describes skiing on his new T3s. “All I got is a springy seat” Ed Rader, after hearing Greg and looking at his old Snowfields “I’d be skiing topless if this wasn’t a public resort” * not telling…yet I know who “I didn’t know who the weather gods were ‘til I met you” “You come to WV you pack your shorts, goggles, scarves, skis, sunscreen….” Julie Nash “We don’t care if it snows, we are coming anyway” “Look! My skis are warped” “Take a Tylenol and drink a glass of wine” Diane Hinkle’s initial advice to some first timers “Once I get here, I don’t wanna leave” “You went from zero to hero in the woods today” “You guys do a good job” while snow shoveling 3 mile “This is like Colorado” “Ten bucks is a bargain for this” a women while snow shoveling 3 mile “Only I like mine twice as wide” looking over a pair of xc racing skis with a concerned customer “You call this open?” “I only pick rocks with p tex on them” chip chase leaning over again! supplemental Nordique replacement technique (telemark skiing at the resorts) ”I can show you what it looks like when you guess wrong” southern Dan Hensley helping some folks get their rental xc boots figured out “Call it karma, call it luck” Ghostbusters movie “Ever think about going to church?” Farm owner Doc Reed after hearing how snowless the winter has been “You gotta get up on the roof and dance, you’ll be closer to the snow gods” the Coke guy’s advice “You’re all ate up with this skiing thing, ain’t ya?” Dave Nuding’s buddies in Nashville “Chip and Mike are the Waylon and Willy of cross country skiing, the outlaws.” Dickie Hall in Springer Orchard “I’m a teacher, I pray for snow” “The snow’s there, its gotta be used” “I’ve never felt so good working so hard in my life” Terry Peterson “If skiing these trees is your hell, I’d love to see your heaven” NATO survivor in the breakfast bowl wet grass mud wrestling “My skiing is like my husband’s singing, fine if you are by yourself” mapping legend MaryAnn Honcharik “…it’s like a hit of the sixties” Fred Busk describing us to one of his friends A weatherman is the only job where you can be wrong 90% of the time “Sometimes the elevator-sometimes the shaft” Barry the Groomer/Caver Baumgardner “Hope you don’t mind some bum holes in your tracks, it was the only way to stop” * some lovely fun humorous folks from Jersey, England “Is this like real skiing?” “If you turn off the thermostat, I’ll come back” “If I say it’ll snow a foot and it doesn’t, you’ll blame me” UPS Mike “My gear is so old they are automatically rock skis” “this rain is washing the Canaan land prices back where they belong” “We use avalanche probes to search for cow pies” “when do we get to the skiing part” an alpiners innocent perspective “Do you think it’ll get warm enough to ski the slopes without my edges?” chippie wondering “They’ve already taken our tickets, now what can they do?” Matt Marcus on a one run at Canaan “there’s no other place in the world I’d rather be” George Flam settled into some stout and café relaxation Sunday “put away my power boards and come to whitegrass to dance” Denis Bogan “breakable crust depends on how much you weigh” Stro, after following the kids through the jack frost glades “The weather doesn’t watch the weather channel” Dickie Hall “now that I’m practicing telemark, I’m falling more than her” Marc Shaffer our resident snow cloud living back on the mountain “the UPS man has been wrong before” “currently unemployed, is there money in this” some folks we photographed “thought you were a struggling entrepreneur, but now I’m not so sure” “Should these fit like regular ski boots?” “A winter like this has gotta be killing our competition” chip chase at the snowless Whitegrass “We went through the sixties” a Mom explaining how whitegrass got the way it is “When it snows I get the feeling there’s a party atmosphere here” a writer from Alabama “nothing like soft January corn” Smitty throwing up his arms at this last thaw “we got about a three inches of partly cloudy” Teddy Fries “sun flurries * lake flake ” “some skiing is 1000 times better than no skiing” Gary Berti “that snow is soooo good, really good” Brad Moore from the whitegrass movie “why haven’t you done the right snowdance?” “you gotta read between the lines on the weather forecast” “I think the Catholic Church got all the genu flexing outa me” “it’s so nice to wear light skis!” “when you get going on these things, you’ll do some skiing” “Downhill skiing is one third, they never go up or across, only down” “Nice stair lift” Dick Hall following our zig zagged foot pack up the slope

“ski for sale…half price” a message Dickie taped to his snapped ski in the parking lot of Mad River “your bindings are broken in the back” the often heard yell to the tele skiers from the lift “in cross country you go to a meadow and commune with nature and look for deer” some café guy explaining Nordic to his snowboarding son the other evening “we go up!” Terry Peterson’s battle cry as we start toward Baldie “stud downhiller has been humbled” Jeff Cohen after skiing the grass’s trails “this sun is making my eyes squint, I’ll come back when it is cloudy, or better yet, when it’s raining” Humor pro Dick Hall at a sunny NATO powder afternoon here “cross country is soooooooooo boring!” “to the big dump or 1”, 1”, 1” Sue Haywood’s farewell toast in 2002 “If it snowed any more, none of us would be able to afford to live here” Charlie Water stating a known fact…bye bye snow - hello rain “that’s a lotta work” “We’re starting off with a brand new base, none of that old dirty old snow laying around” Alice “You know you are at whitegrass when about every skier is still on leather 3 pin boots” “I thought cross country was supposed to be flat” rambull twins crab liver scaly scorpions are good water fish listen listen listen to my heart’s song * I will never forget you I will never forsake you (repeat) The earth the fire the wind the water return return return “the land of the uphill pitches” “you call this open?” “I can ski normally, how hard is this xc?” John McVickor, our local Davis plumber “It’s a mighty world we live in, the truth is we are just passing through” * some rock song we heard her majesty the snowy mountain “In cross country skiing you use every muscle and a bunch you never knew you had” my xc intro “I didn’t think these skis could do that!” “If I ever knew it was THIS hard, I never woulda tried it.” “Isn’t this warm winter weather rather unusual?” * NO!#%! “Ahh - whooo” Mad River’s Nic Osborne’s battle ski cry heard all over New England “Are there mountains in West Virginia? Don’t tell me it snows there…” * a Cali girl skiing with me at the Winter OR show last winter in Utah….perhaps some more basic geography? “Why do you guys do that?” standing in the liftline in obvious tele gear “How do you do that, are the boots comfy, is it hard?” talk to the alpine skier ptex corner-Falls Overlook and Weiss Ascent “You are skiing the wrong way” what you usually hear when you climb near a chairlift “The cool thing about this sport (skiing) is there is no right or wrong way to do it.” Dick Hall, sharing skiing secrets with his students while our video camera caught him on Friday. “Winter Never Ends it just gets warmer.” Colorado Tom “snow hasta be used” “I don’t know what’s best - the skiing or the food”