On the left is one of Jeanne's favorite runs, Tressel! Fairly steep but not icey. On the right is one of my favorite runs - Banzai! Very steep at the top but quickly goes to a nice gentle run down to the bottom.

No matter how many times we ski Snowmass we are always impressed with the area and its scenery. One day we just happened to stumble across a dog sled team taking some visitors on a tour of the area. It looks like fun but we would rather ski.

Lunch is always a great time - good hot food and scenery. I believe you can see me in the middle. On the right is one of the many expensive homes which are not in use all year. Rather, they are vacation home.

Jeanne makes an excellent turn due to her constant working on her form and technique. On the right she is waiting for me to head down into the valley, Jeanne calls it a "bunny hill". It goes down to the left to the lift to the Big Burn which you can see behind her.

One more photograph (actually we have many more of Snowmass but just cannot include them all in this web site). Then, in the summer after I have reached 55 years old I sign up to try to qualify for the USGA Senior Amateur. I didn't give myself much of a chance but one of the many qualifying sites was at the Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. No golfer could pass up a chance like that. The qualifier will be played on the north course, not the south where the PGA has a tournament. But the north course has much more water, is very pretty, and some think it is harder than the south course.

I have always like to practice but only occasionally. So I take advantage of the range and work out a bit. If you look closely as some of my other golf photographs you will see that I don't rotate my hips like I should on the take away. This causes a fade or slice but at least I always know where the ball is going.

Talking to other players I learn that the past few years +6 has made the cut, i.e. gone on to the national championship. Jeanne and Sam are with me as we came up the day before in our camper for a practice round. The tournament - I am 7 over par after 11 holes. My group started on #10. At #18 I hit my tee ball in the water, played my 3rd shot to the fairway (a par 5), a 3 wood into the greenside bunker, a sand wedge to 2' and a easy putt for a bogey. Then another bogey at #1 put me +7 and looking bad for me. But a surprise birdie at #2 and paring out I was at the "magic number", +6! Unfortunately, there were a bunch of really good players behind me and some came in at +5 or better and I was out of the running for a spot in the national tournament.

By the way, this is where I became interested in the Rules Of Golf. On the 17th hole, a 170 yard par 3 over water, one guy in your group hit his tee ball in the bank of the hole. The bank was rip-rap, i.e. large stones, and we finally found his ball. It was in the harazd but there was a 2"X4" laying over it and if he could move it he might have a shot to the green. We were pretty sure he could move the board but asked a rules offical. He say, "... it is wood, a loose impediment, and you can't move it....". So the player had to go back to tee, hit #3, and ended up with double.

After the tournament I wrote the USGA about the situation and was told that the rules official was wrong, the board could have been moved. The next year the USGA Senior Amateur qualifier was again at Firestone South. When I checked in the official said, "... oh, you're the guy that call the USGA about the ruling last year....." I don't think he was to happy to see me. This lead me to become more knowledgable about the rules and eventually I became a volunteer rules official in the upstate of South Carolina after we retired. Strangely enough I found myself as a rules official for the USGA Senior Amateur and Senior Open years later.