Sunday, February 15, 2009
White weekend
We had a white weekend, enjoying the 20-plus cm of snow that's fallen here, and the 50cm-plus that's in the mountains.
Saturday - cross-country skiing, carving out our own tracks in places and then following the freshly-laid grooves from the x-country track-making skidoo. I'm still not very good at going downhill on cross-country skis!
Sunday - sledging and then cross-country again. Apart from the travel costs, we spent nothing on winter sports this weekend - so in comparison to downhill skiing, we're around ?200 in the black. Judging from the webcam on our local hill, the pistes were pretty packed, especially today, in the sunshine.
Here's 12 seconds of our weekend.
Saturday - cross-country skiing, carving out our own tracks in places and then following the freshly-laid grooves from the x-country track-making skidoo. I'm still not very good at going downhill on cross-country skis!
Sunday - sledging and then cross-country again. Apart from the travel costs, we spent nothing on winter sports this weekend - so in comparison to downhill skiing, we're around ?200 in the black. Judging from the webcam on our local hill, the pistes were pretty packed, especially today, in the sunshine.
Here's 12 seconds of our weekend.
Labels: ski
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Back on skis
Today was my first time on skis this season and damn! why did I leave it so long? Everything aches, of course, and it will no doubt be worse tomorrow morning when we get up to go again, but it's worth it. Even my tumble on the Garland (always super-steep, today also super-icy) didn't put a downer on things (at least, for very long - only until I'd gotten all the snow out from under my shirt).
Although I can't really work out if we're on it or not, we were on top of the Brauneck at midday when the webcam took this pic.
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