Trees, Baby
Juniper and Henry Bailey learning to love storm riding at Mt. Baker Ski Area, WA, with their mom, Megan. Photo: Colin Wiseman
Words: Lisa Jhung
I hadn’t been on my board for years, but when my then 6-year-old son Sam said he wanted to learn how to ride, I quickly answered: “I can teach you.”
I’d been a Level I instructor at Homewood Mountain Resort on the West Shore of Lake Tahoe in my mid-20s. But when I moved to Boulder, CO, when I was 29, I was neck-deep in endurance sports and didn’t want to pay for a ski pass. I spent weekends racing on snowshoes and learning to skate ski. I married a rock climber. We had kids.
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