W. Bruce Cameron - No Ski Like Snow Ski

I am the sort of athlete who participates in a lot of winter sports — basketball, for example, is an activity that I’ll spend many hours a week watching. And I’ll sometimes agree to let my children drag me out for a day of snow skiing, though I prefer this occur in the summer, when it’s not my fault we don’t go.

My philosophy on snow skiing is that there are less expensive ways to fall down a mountain. Yet every couple of years I go on a ski trip for the same reason that women will have multiple children — they simply forget how much it hurts.

Ski-lift tickets became rather expensive in the 19...