When I started at BYU, we got married during our freshman year. Kaye had taken a ski course for PE. The next year she talked me into taking the ski course. I signed up and the first lesson was at the top of Brighton Area. Kaye had told me not to sign up for the very beginning ski class, but the other beginning ski class. I misunderstood and signed up for the intermediate class. I fell getting off the chair lift. The instructor had the class line up at the edge of the steep face that we were supposed to ski down. He said, "Follow me," so each of the students except me followed him down the hill. The instructor yelled, "Come on!" I went straight down past the class and ran into a tree and broke my ski binding. It took the rest of the day to climb back up to the chair lift so I could ride it down. By the time I got back down to the bus the lessons were all over and they were waiting for me on the bus and they were all mad. The instructor told me I would have to learn on my own if I wanted to stay in that class. He couldn't hold everyone else up. I learned fast and I was the best in the class by the end of the class.
By then Kaye was pregnant with Cathy, who was born March 24th. I went skiing at Mt. Timpanogos just before Cathy was born and sprained my ankle. I borrowed Marge's crutches because her foot was in a cast. When it came time for Cathy to be born I was on crutches, Marge was in her walking cast and Kaye had to carry her own suitcase. When we went in the hospital the nurse asked which of us wanted to be admitted.
Later on I would go skiing with Hal, Kaye's uncle, at Snow Basin by Ogden. On one of the trips I broke my ankle there. When I went to dental school in San Francisco, I sometimes would go skiing in Utah when we came up there for Christmas.
When I was in Orthodontic School, Kaye and I went skiing at Mammoth, California with our classmates. After we graduated we took several ski trips with our classmates-Squaw Valley, California; Aspen, Colorado; they were really fun trips.
We took our family to Squaw Valley skiing because they let children ski free with the parent's paid their our lift tickets. Cathy and Cindy picked up skiing fast. Greg started when he was 7. Kaye skiied with Brad between her legs when he was 5. He used to get mad and throw his poles on the ground and lay there and cry. He finally did learn to be a good skier. All the kids became great skies-way better than us. Our family skied a lot of places in the Sierras. Mostly around Lake Tahoe. Later on we took Cindy, Greg and Brad to Banff, Canada. We stayed at the Banff Springs Hotel. It was beautiful. Some of the young guys that worked there took a fancy to Cindy and sent up huge trays of fruits and cheese to our room. They had an outside hot springs pools that you could swim in with snow all around. You could enter it from the hotel dressing rooms without walking outside.
One of the really fun things we did was to take a sleigh ride across the valley to a really big tent where they had a big barbecue and a dance. It was at night and the stars and moon were beautiful on the snow.
We went skiing at the Sunshine Ski Area. Greg and Brad entered the ski races there. Brad won a second place medal and Greg won a fourth place medal. We also skied at the Lake Louise Ski Area where we could ski and look down at the beautiful Lake Louise. That was one of the best trips we ever took.
Aspen
The trip we took to Aspen was great. We stayed at Snowmass Ski Area. We could ski out of our condo to the lift. We also skied at Aspen. We went to a lot of nice restaurants in Aspen. One had a melodrama show. The waiters and waitresses were the actors. It was really fun. On the way home we stopped in Utah and went to see Lou Jean, Kaye's aunt who was dying of cancer. then we flew home.
Big Bear, California
We were going to take a family to Lake Tahoe, but Marge had a stroke so Kaye decided to stay home with her. Cathy was married and gone. I decided to take Cindy and her friend, Gabe Crabtree, and Gerg and Brad skiing. we headed towards Tahoe, but the road was closed so we headed toward Big Bear. We were in a VW van and we went to the little town of Big Bear. Cindy was driving. We headed toward the ski area and it said Chains Required, but there was no snow on the road. I told Cindy we would wait until we got to a place on the map that said Lone Tree to put on our chains. then there was some snow on the road and Cindy got stopped by a cop who gave her a ticket for not having chains. We put the chains on and went up to the ski area. We went to the lodge and they gave us a room and we took our stuff up. Later they called and said we couldn't have the room. It made me mad and before we left I stripped all the bedding on the beds and opened all the soaps and threw the key on the desk. We started back down the hill about half a mile and there was a big lodge. They hadn't cleared the driveway into the lodge. We parked the car and climbed over the snow and went to the lodge. We were the only people at the lodge. We stayed there 3 days and had a great time. the kids went into the bar and got cherry cokes. The bar tender taught them how to tie knots with the stems of marichino cherries in their mouths. When we came back Cindy had to go to court for her ticket. The judge told her that this was very serious and she would give a nervous giggle. He would tell her it wasn't funny and she would giggle again. "What do your parents think about this?" he asked. She said that I was with her. He looked at me and said, "Case dismissed."
We bought a condo near South Shore of Lake Tahoe. It was on the Nevada side of Heavenly Valley Ski Resort. It was near the Stagecoach lift and we could walk over to the lift. We skied a lot there. We also took trips to Virginia City, Carson City and Reno from there. It was at Virginia City that I saw the beautiful antique wood stoves. After that I bought 4 antique parlor stoves. We have one in our game room now.
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