Friday, December 23, 2005

Skiing in Jackson



I took this photo on the Wave in Jackson. You can see Olof is the first person down this, it is before they groomed. Jackson was just wonderful last week. Early snow, mild temperatures. It feels so great to be out there. We skied the fields, the Wave and then down the Yodel.
I'm lucky I married someone who was born with skis on. Babies come that way in Scandinavia. I didn't start skiing until we moved to New Hampshire. I was 24 and my first cross country skis were 215's made of wood we got at the Eastern Slope Ski Sale for 15.00. Including poles, I think. They were so long! Now I ski on 185's.
Back then there was itchy wool long underwear or cotton stuff. And we wore sweaters and jeans. You'd just get miserably wet. I remember skiing Doublehead with some friends and getting down hills on my rear end. Nowadays I am the Queen of Snowplow. I can snowplow almost anything. That is because I am a coward and I like to take hills slowly.
It looks like a great ski winter already.

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