As I'm sitting here getting ready to record this episode, I'm watching the news, and there's parts of the northeast that are getting dumped on with snow.

And that's great news if you ski. But what if you don't ski and you'd like to try it?

Let's find out.

Today I want to welcome back,

Mary Ann Orr, who is a author, Gappier Girl, an adventure across 21c.

Last time Mary was on here, we talked about her books, but today, Marianne's here to talk about skiing.

Marianne, welcome back.

Thank you so much.

It's good to be here.

Let's start off.

Tell us how you got into skiing.

You know, it's a, it looks looks like a fun activity and I have never skied. I've always thought about it, but I've had some leg injuries that

Maybe I've used them as excuses. I don don't know but it does look like a lot of fun

What got you into skiing?

Well, I I spent my teenage years on Long Island.

No, well, there's one little mountain on Long Island,

Bald Hill.

I don't even know if it's there anymore,

but there was a ski trip when I was in high school. I was 14. No one in my family had ever skied and all my friends were going. Some of them had skied before some hadn't, but you know, as a 14 year old I wanted to go with all my friends.

So we went upstate New York to Belair and just had a blast and there were a couple more ski trips that year and so I went on those and as high school went on when I was the sophomore when I was the sophomore and then a junior and a senior, a couple friends and I all worked

with the gym teacher to organize the ski trips. So we got to go for free, which was very nice, as long as we got, I forget, 16 people to show up and take the bus. So that was pretty much it I I've skied ever since. Many of the people I

talk to who ski it started in high school a similar story to what you have is that I

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