Summary
Skiing is an exciting winter sport, but it is not for everybody. For example, it is not for sane people. Sane people look at skiing, and they say: "Wait a minute. I'm supposed to attach slippery objects to my feet and get on a frozen chair dangling from a scary- looking wire, then get dumped off on a snow-covered slope so steep that the mountain goats are wearing seat belts, and then, if by some miracle I am able to get back down without killing myself, I'm supposed to do this again?"
As I get older -- which I am currently doing at the rate of about five years per year -- this is more and more how I view skiing. I've been looking for an alternative winter sport that does not force a person to become so intimately involved with gravity. And so, recently, I went to Idaho (official state motto: "Convenient To Montana") to experience two winter sports that seemed better suited to the mature sportsperson, in the sense that you can do them while sitting down. In an effort to make my trip as tax-deductible as humanly possible, I've decided to write a two-part series about these sports. This week's Featured Winter Sport is: snowmobiling.See the full content of this document
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Winter Sports with Rapidly Aging Shouting Man
A snowmobile is a high-performance motorized vehicle mounted on a track and skis that enable it to travel rapidly into remote snow- covered wilderness areas, where it gets stuck. Of course, I didn't know this whe...
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