There is something to be said about spending a day
skiing. There is also something to be
said about spending a day anywhere but work.
I guess you could think about that in many ways, and probably suggest
warmer alternatives, like spending a day at the beach or something like that.
True.
I like both options, but I live in Canada Rockies to ski would also take a
week.....hmmm)
Skiing is a pretty good adrenaline rush. Careening down hill, sometimes in control,
sometimes not, is pretty thrilling. A
double black diamond run can really get the heart pumping. And the windburn you get on your face roughly
approximates a tan.
I can't lie to my readers (well I could, but what would be
the point) I am not a great skier. I am
an intermediate skier with less of a death wish than most people on the
mountain. Sometimes I am cautious,
sometimes I am reckless. I guess it all
depends.
I am a skier, not a snowboarder. That is just a clarification, not a snobby
declaration. Snowboarding looks pretty
cool, and I wish I could do it, but I am worried about being too old to learn
it. A good snowboarder seems very
graceful, carving turns with ease, riding the mountain like it's a wave on the
ocean. Of course a bad snowboarder is
just one more obstacle in my way, and an unpredictable one at that.
I might whine about having to shovel snow, but without snow
there would be no skiing. And if there
were no snow, I couldn't take a midweek break to go skiing.
