After being a teacher for eight years, I quit my job. At age 30, I realized I couldn't keep walking into class with anxiety about what I was going to find I decided to become a ski instructor, where I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article originally appeared on Ski Mag Most coming-of-age narratives in the world of skiing center on the men who physically ...

PITTSFIELD — Many of Cindy Bartlett's pivotal life moments have occurred on a ski slope. She started skiing at 7, began teaching at 14, even met her future husband on the slopes. All of these events ...

KEYSTONE - Charlie Winterton primed his charges to keep their hands forward and their weight centered and then, at the precise moment, to explode off the 6-foot-high snow-covered ramp for some ...

RIRIE, Idaho — Eighty-eight-year-old Bob Carlson can ski with anybody, and when he isn't practicing his carving on the slopes, he's teaching inexperienced skiers how to gain their footing at Kelly ...

WENATCHEE, Wash. — Otto Ross has found the fountain of youth. It's frozen, and you can ski on it. It's at Mission Ridge, where this 98-year-old is still teaching people how to ski. Otto started skiing ...

RIRIE — Eighty-eight-year-old Bob Carlson can ski with anybody, and when he isn’t practicing his carving on the slopes, he’s teaching young ones who are struggling to gain their footing at Kelly ...

After eight years in the classroom, I turned in my teaching badge and picked up a ski pass. Turning 30, I began to look at my life and question if I wanted to stay in the teaching profession for the ...