Of Air and Birds and Olympians

[resqgeek]

Skiing day two! We actually made it out of the condo early enough that we had to wait a few minutes for the lifts to open. We headed straight to the top of the mountain, and skied some of the more challenging terrain. We discovered a jump in the middle of one run, and went back to give the girls a chance to try it. Both girls need to work on their landings, but the younger daughter demonstrated her complete lack of fear, taking the jump as a speed that made me very nervous. She made a monster jump, but the landing won't win any style points!

We then headed off to ski the powder in the trees. We eventually made our way to the Morningside Park area on the back of the mountain. We enjoyed skiing between the trees in the powder. On the way up the lift, the girls pulled out the bread crumbs they'd brought along and held them out on their palms. The birds would swoop down from the trees and land on their hands to eat.

After lunch, we met up with Billy Kidd for a free ski clinic. He explained how we can improve our skiing even when we are just standing still. He emphasized that your stance in very important to the way you ski. It was a good, if brief lesson, and we spent the rest of the afternoon practicing as the snow began to come down ever harder (which suggests that tomorrow might be an excellent ski day!).

Comments

Wow!

[discoverylover.livejournal.com]

I'm impressed! Looks like a lot of fun :D

woooo-whoooo

[benpj.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlAHZURxRjY