I was cruising along the other day on 18-speed mountain bike in a pair of cutoff Levi’s with duct-tape covering my brain bucket, protecting me from death by asphalt. Part way up the hill, I was passed rather rapidly by a group of people on a professionally conducted bicycle tour.
To put my bicycle riding in [...]

Warren Miller Copyright, May 14, 2010
P.O. Box 350
Deer Harbor, Washington 98243
The Many Myths of Aging
The following are just a few of the “perceived myths of aging” that I have discovered as I have aged: I have been told ever since I was a little kid, “Just wait until you are a little bit older and [...]

Warren Miller Copyright, May 7, 2001
PO Box 350
Deer Harbor, WA 98243
Hollywood Park
I was having my house painted in 1971 when the painter invited me to go to Hollywood Park to the horse races with him. I had never been to a horse race track because I always [...]

Warren Miller Copyright, April 28, 2001
PO Box 350
Deer Harbor, WA 98243
Life Expectancy
In 1900 the projected life span of the average American was 38½ years old. Today, in 2010, the projected age for the average American is 78½ years old.
I don’t know how they arrived at that new number but if I am any example they didn’t [...]

Warren Miller Copyright April 21, 2010
PO Box 350
Deer Harbor, WA 98243
TOO OLD TO BE OF VALUE!
In 1995 my wife Laurie and I were living at the bottom of the Lionshead Gondola at Vail when our phone rang early one evening.
It was the top executive of Vail Associates.
“Hello Warren, we would like to ski with you tomorrow [...]