Noticed this is a resurrected 2015 thread.
This will be my first year skiing in retirement after 4 decades working in Silicon Valley hi tech, commuting to Tahoe skiing mostly on winter weekends. My hair is now about a third gray and some finger knuckles show arthritis bumps, but... Has been very scary the last decade plus looking at how other younger middle aged have aged, getting all grey haired, wrinkly skinned, ungraceful, slowed, often bulging in the middle, as am afraid aging may suddenly speed up in my body too. Although I might be in the 1% of those aging slowest at the moment, sooner or later growing old and our mortality gets us all.
Have been rec skiing at an advanced level for decades and also as a landscape photography enthusiast, hiker, and backpacker have been very active year round all my adult life outside the m-f 8-5 slog. Thus the best advice I can give while noting genetics probably has a lot to due with each of us, is to keep nicely active all your adult life. Use it or lose it. This winter if it ever snows haha so I can get good number of days in in order to get into mid season animal reaction form, I expect to do some of my best mogul skiing ever. During 2017 besides lots of day hiking, I also went on 5 backpacking trips lugging mid 60 carrying weight for this little 137# old guy with a 22 BMI. Dave's mogul form last January bounced on S3's in 4 fresh tracks:
This will be my first year skiing in retirement after 4 decades working in Silicon Valley hi tech, commuting to Tahoe skiing mostly on winter weekends. My hair is now about a third gray and some finger knuckles show arthritis bumps, but... Has been very scary the last decade plus looking at how other younger middle aged have aged, getting all grey haired, wrinkly skinned, ungraceful, slowed, often bulging in the middle, as am afraid aging may suddenly speed up in my body too. Although I might be in the 1% of those aging slowest at the moment, sooner or later growing old and our mortality gets us all.
Have been rec skiing at an advanced level for decades and also as a landscape photography enthusiast, hiker, and backpacker have been very active year round all my adult life outside the m-f 8-5 slog. Thus the best advice I can give while noting genetics probably has a lot to due with each of us, is to keep nicely active all your adult life. Use it or lose it. This winter if it ever snows haha so I can get good number of days in in order to get into mid season animal reaction form, I expect to do some of my best mogul skiing ever. During 2017 besides lots of day hiking, I also went on 5 backpacking trips lugging mid 60 carrying weight for this little 137# old guy with a 22 BMI. Dave's mogul form last January bounced on S3's in 4 fresh tracks:
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