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Contributed by: Brendan Leonard/YourHub.com on 12/11/2006

Saturday was my first day back on the ski slopes after spending last season learning to snowboard (but moreso how to fall really hard and why a helmet is important).

We headed out to Ski Cooper, to try something new and avoid the crowds that we assumed were headed to Keystone, Breckenridge and Vail. (Actually, a guy in the restroom at the Silverthorne Burger King told me there was quite a pileup on U.S. 6 of cars waiting to get into Keystone, so we nixed that right away.)

Ski Cooper was the perfect place for me, since it was my first day back, and I was never very good at snowboarding anyway. Cooper is small -- it has two chairlifts, only one of which is high-speed, only 26 runs, and not much in the way of shopping or other services at the base. All this adds up to Not Many People Watching Me Fall, as I did the second time I got off the chairlift, careening into the row of cones on the left side of the exit area, tangling myself up in the rope.

The rest of the day, we rode pretty much every run at the resort, and found ourselves pretty much alone on a lot of the runs. I was able to get back on the horse in fairly good style, falling a few times, but nothing like the trauma-force impacts I subjected myself to last season.

That was the beginning of my ski season. Does anyone else ski or snowboard? Of course you do. This is Colorado, for Pete's sake. There are three things you can do with YourHub.com that have to do with skiing.

You can:

1) Post photos from your next outing. I'm sure you can take something a little more action-oriented than the ones I took.

2) Post a review of one of our 26 ski resorts. Or, post a rant about the traffic that clogs up I-70 every Saturday morning and Sunday evening -- I'll back you up on that.

3) Win a Crested Butte X Card (four free days at Crested Butte + one free day at Monarch) by telling us why you deserve it. I'm not judging this contest, but I'll say this: Your chances of winning are better if your submission is creative. And if it has a photo. We're giving away one each day through Dec. 22, so hurry up.

We've got a couple of new bloggers talking about skiing this year:

Joel Hunt, a former Denver resident who moved to Vail in August to work at the Vail Daily. Joel's trying to spend 100 days snowboarding this season, and is keeping a running tally complete with narrative and photos on his blog, " 100 Days and 365 Crazy Nights."

Nick Bohnenkamp, a public relations coordinator for Colorado Ski Country USA (and the guy in the above photo), has promised us a blog about learning to telemark ski. I've been goading him to write more blogs about his two-season career as a lift operator at Breckenridge -- he recently tried to sum it all up in one entry, " Life of a Ski Lift Operator."

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