The ski scene from Up On The Woof Top has come up in the comments recently. I like writing about anything to do with sports! (Three famous runs are mentioned in the book – Corbett’s, the Baldy Chutes, and the Pallavicini. In my skiing days I was never stupid enough to try the first two but I did somehow manage to get myself down the third which is much the easiest of the 3, at least on the route I clung to.) Here’s how the ski scene starts (narrated by Chet, a dog, true, but not a talking one):

We went inside. The only guy around was a bearded dude rubbing a yellowish waxy bar along the bottom of a ski, the smell very pleasant. Skiing made a good impression on me from the get-go.