Wes Wylie: Skiing and Healing, How to Ski Forever
Dr. Wes Wylie is the guy you want on your heliskiing crew. He\u2019s a heliski guide at Alaska\u2019s Tordillo Mountain Lodge as well as Powderbirds out of Snowbird. He\u2019s been a ski patroller at Deer Valley for more than 20 years. He travels to Chile and New Zealand in the summer to guide clients. Oh, and he\u2019s also a private physician who travels the country practicing medicine.\xa0
1:00: Are you a ski guide who practices medicine or a doctor who skis?\xa0
2:30: Getting into medicine as a way to ski
3:45: The overlap between doctoring and skiing. A typical year on mountains, with a few months in hospitals.
5:50: \u201cThe big dinner conversation.\u201d Honing aging bodies for skiing. Clients as patients. How to offset the 1% annual loss of muscle mass in men in their 50s, 60s and 70s.\xa0
7:15: The \u201ceasy\u201d prescription to offset that muscle loss and even build muscle past age 50.\xa0
9:00: And even thwart the insidious weight gain of life after 50.\xa0
12:00: Advice for skiers looking to stay on skis deep into their 80s or even 90s: minimize the impacts.\xa0
12:35: People get injured for three reasons. Two of them are the fault of the guides.\xa0
14:20: Progressing \u201cnever-ever\u201d Alaska helicopter skiers into steep, deep, sprawling terrain.\xa0
15:20: Second time's the charm.\xa0
18:30: Being \u201creally spherical\u201d when talking as a guide.
20:00: The photographic component of guiding. Tips for creating lifelong keepsakes.\xa0
23:40: Photos as \u201ca great venue for people to review their skills.\u201d
25:50: Building the ultimate guide ski for heavy-pack skiing in variable conditions in Alaska
28:00 The ultimate guide ski looks like this
32:00 The best advice he\u2019s ever received: Movement is good. Stay in the flow. When people stay in the flow state, all the mechanics fall into place.