Snow Valley Mountain Resort has been teaching youngsters about the slopes for more than half a century.
, in the San Bernardino Mountains about 90 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. One day in the not-too-distant future, she says she’s going to be able to keep up with, and maybe even out-ski, her 40-year-old dad, Robert.
“I skied as many as three times a week with friends and family growing up, often with my dad,” he said. “It was my life during winters. And for lots of my friends too. I recall sitting in the back of my parents’ old [Chevrolet] Suburban and changing on the way up to the resort. Most of the instructors back then were parents and other volunteers. One was a pastor at a local church.
Willemse said she does her best to keep the classes relatively small, with just seven or eight students per instructor, particularly for the little ones. “And the first session of the year ... though parents have told us what level they think their kids are, we still have to sort them out to get them in the appropriate group,” she said.It costs $165 for six weeks of 90-minute lessons and lift tickets, with classes held each Friday at 3 and 5 p.m.
Willemse said she and her husband learned to ski at Snow Valley when their kids took up the sport. Three of her four offspring are still skiing and daughter Traci — a U.S. Naval Academy graduate who now teaches Marines how to fly Cobra attack helicopters in San Diego — became a ski instructor. The six-week Rim Youth Program was created for local kids in the San Bernardino Mountains area. Now children come from all over to participate.
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