Seniors today are healthier and advances in skiing equipment design mean the sport is gentler on the body
“I’m as athletic as a rusty nail,” says the 66-year-old Edmontonian. “I’m also very petrified of heights. I have acrophobia.”
The sport is physically and mentally stimulating and the views are spectacular, she says, as long as she doesn’t have to look down. A decade ago, people aged 55-plus accounted for 17.5 per cent of skies in a season, according to the U.S.-based National Ski Areas Association. That percentage has grown steadily since.
For those who have skied but not for a very long time, she says it’s like riding a bike – except when you get to the bottom.“You get on the lift and the lift takes you up. You never have to pedal up the hill. It’s fantastic,” she says. “You need to keep learning new things and why not learn something that you can do for 10, 15, 20 more years,” she says.
Eventually, he persevered but Ms. Greene Raine noticed his wife would stay at the bottom of the hill.
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