The first trip, in what he hope is a yearly thing, up to Snowshoe Mountain Ski Resort in West Virgina. I had never skied or snowboarded before so I gave snowboarding a try without taking any lessons. I don’t know if that was necessarily a bad move, but it sure was painful. I must have fallen well over 100 times and was, for lack of a better term, a cancer on the slopes, falling in front of people and not able to get off the lifts. By the time we left, I couldn’t do anything else on the slopes – I was physically too tired…. [view-the-gallery galleryaddress=”Snowshoe”]