What does lian dolan mean in "carrying your own skis" when she says that "skiing was work"?

Lian Dolan tells the story about how her mother and her mother's twin sister decided to learn how to ski, all this in the mid-sixties when going to ski didn't represent all the comfort and status it does now, back in the day going skiing was a very rudimentary sport without all the resorts we can find now to do this practice.

Therefore skiing was work means that you were not in extreme comfort and luxury at learning this sport yo we actually using all your physical skills in a rough environment.

to gain popularity at school, fitzgerald wrote plays for the school and cast himself as the star. he also joined one of the universitys most prestigious clubs.

i am almost certain that man symbolizes communism in this passage.

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