Yesterday, I happened to be Riding the chairlift with what seemed to be a fairly young man to me (maybe between 30 or 40) and he was explaining to me how he was riding his snowboard through tight trees and was quite proud about it. 

He showed me some of the wooded area he had been riding through and it was indeed very constricted and only one could do that on a snowboard and not on skis, far too long for the close spacing available. 

He added that his friends didn’t believe he could do it and he showed me his Gopro towering on his helmet, before saying that he now had the video evidence to set the record straight. 

More surprisingly though, as we reached the top of the lift, he said “It’s great to see a person your age still skiing, I find it quite inspiring!” In spite of my helmet, goggles and face mask, he had been both observant and perceptive enough to realize that he was sitting next to a dinosaur. 

This was the very first time I came to realize that if I was now an old man, I also looked like an old skier!