. >> trying on that montclair ski jacket got me think being our reporter drake bennett. drake tradeed in his snow boards for a pair of skis. >> i wanted to ski. increasingly i never approached the age of 40 and have a have a son fell like snow boarding was little less age appropriate. it's h how to ski when you live in new york and you only go a couple times a year. i found a place really good ski program. that's north star in lake tahoe. spent three days with him all day learning how to ski. after three days i got pretty comfortable. north star is a place where the terrain is pretty intermediate. i can get down pretty comfortably. it's a place of lot of nice amenities. you can pamper yourself after you're done. my instructor, had a lot of great tips. some of the stuff is basically like physical. he would man-handle me and get a sense what he's trying to say. some of it it's counterintuitive things where you think being going up and down rather than side to side. thinking the pressure between your shin and ski boots. lot of it just doing it. the nice thing about it, unlik