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LURCHING FROM ONE
Get your Golf
NEAR DISASTER TO ANOTHER. Warren Miller
Bright Sunny Day

Passes Early!

D
URING THE FIRST WEEK OF purchase a ski lift ticket.
December, on our south facing In the early years, I was what was

waterfront home on the island, been called a transportation skier. I got
the sun is low and brilliant, but it’s still to climb in a long traverse, way over to
freezing cold.
another ridge with all of my camera gear
On the north side of the island we can to get just the right angle of that powder
see Mount Garibaldi in the park north of with the sun shining behind the skiers on
Vancouver, snow white and shining and their way down the hill. That low angle of
to the right of it is Mount Baker with its the winter sun made the white snow and

many ski lifts ready to haul skiers and deep blue shadows allow people to see
snowboarders skyward at 9 a.m.
that ski action, excited enough to come
Since the fall of 1946, I have been West. It was as though I was dispensing
lucky enough to be on a ski hill some- an intoxicating drug on a large screen. In
where in the world from the irst day of the process, I was the luckiest guy in the
the season until the snow disappeared in world because I got to go there irst and
the spring.
bring it back to the believers, people who
The sun has moved to the west, as I had made turns on skis and the friends
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write this, and now shines so brilliantly they brought to the theaters who had not
in my oice window across my keyboard yet gotten infected with the ski bug.
NAME: ______________________________________ PHONE: _________________________ that it is hard to hit the right keys.
I have been lucky to see a lot of early
Subzero weather is forecast for the morning, brilliant sunrises from a seat
PERMANENT ADDRESS: ________________________________________________________ rest of the week as well as two feet of on a chairlift before it opened to public.
snow in the Rockies. It looks as though I rode up with the ski patrol and the men
CITY: _______________________________STATE: _________________ ZIP: ____________ this is going to be the winter skiers and and women who would be skiing for my

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snowboarders everywhere have been cameras and I got to ilm that untracked
waiting for.
powder snow that few people ever even
ALL PRICES ARE PER PERSON
Through 3/14/14 After 3/14/14 I was lucky to be born in Hollywood, see. Those transportation turns of mine
Calif., a short drive of less than 50 miles were a small price to pay for getting just
_________ Unrestricted:
$650.00 $740.00 to Mount Waterman where the second the right shot.
(Unrestricted play; Tee times 3 days in advance)
chairlift in California was built in the late Sometimes my brain is on fast for-
1930s.
ward and I pound out a lot of short ideas
_________ Twilight:
$490.00
$525.00
In my early ski days, wartime gas ra- about a lot of diferent things that are
(After 4:00 PM Daily)
_________ Junior Pass:
$295.00
tioning was on and we were only allowed only glued together by the fact that we
four gallons a week. So for a ski trip you all own a pair of skis or a snowboard and
(18 and under *Must be full-time student *Must present student ID *Limited to Space Available)
had to round up some skiers who also had enough extra cash to buy all of those lift
_________Cart Pass $540.00 gas-rationing coupons, but you also had tickets this winter.
to coast down the hill on the way home to Laurie and I will be packing the
_________Range Pass $425.00 preserve as much gas as you could.
trailer in the next few days for our an-
As the days remain short, the snow nual journey to Montana and the Yellow-
_________Junior Range Pass
$250.00
will stay better. Then the wonderful corn
(18 and under *Must be full-time student *Must present student ID *Limited to Space Available)
stone Club. I will keep you posted on cold
_________Family Pass #1 $825.00 snow will appear on the south-facing weather, powder snow and what is hap-
(1 Adult, 1 Child) slopes. Meanwhile, you will have “free- pening in our world of white.
_________Family Pass #2 (2 Person Family) $1,100.00 dom on your shoulder” whenever you

_________Family Pass #3 (3 Person Family including 1 child)
$1,300.00
For more of Warren’s wanderings go to www.warrenmiller.net or visit him on his Face-
_________Family Pass #4 (4 Person Family including 2 children)
$1,475.00
book page at facebook.com/warrenmiller. For information on his Foundation, please
**Families with more than 2 children please contact pro shop for pricing **
_________Combination Pass #1 $1,400.00 visit the Warren Miller Freedom Foundation, at www.warrenmiller.org.
(Golf, Cart, Range)
_________Combination Pass #2 (Golf and Cart)
$1,050.00

_________Combination Pass #3 (Golf and Range)
$975.00
**Combination Passes must be purchased by March 14, 2014**

TOTAL ENCLOSED: ____________
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