Skiing

The weekend before last we went skiing for a day at Biwako Valley with Adam, Chiharu and Andy. The others were all on snowboards, but since we were just going for one day, we thought we'd stick to skis so we could enjoy ourselves rather than spending the day learning. This meant, however, that we had to put up with three smug snowboarders laughing at us as we lugged our skis up the mountain in our hard plastic boots as they walked easily in theirs.

It only took one run down an easy slope and we were feeling pretty pretty confident on our skis. In the morning, the weather was beautiful. It was bright and sunny, and the snow was brilliant to ski on, nice and soft and fast, nothing like the icy ground we skied on in Czech. This was fortunate, because I quickly got overconfident and fell over. Then I fell over again. Then I decided to take a nice close look at the snow by diving face forward into the snow at speed. That was fun, so I did it again. I decided to attempt a jump, and fell spectacularly. Later, I accidentally followed Adam into the big jump area, and was way out of my depth. Even avoiding all the jumps, I couldn't quite manage the steep and bumpy ground to the side of the jumps. Because I didn't want to get in the way of the jumpers, I didn't have much room to use to slow down, and ended up spread over about 20m of slope. Ski... ski pole... ski pole... ski... Lucy. Fortunately, nobody got a picture. After that, I took things more slowly for a while...

For once, I didn't take very many photos because I was too busy skiing, but below are a few photos of the scenery.

Adam and Chiharu

Adam landing after a stunt