astridhj
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
I went skiing yesterday for the third time this week. It snowed the day before, and I was really looking forward to some powder skiing...
The first run was piste skiing and that was good, then the second run was when everything started to go wrong. We went off piste a place I've never skied before, and on one of the first turns, I hurt my left knee. It didn't seem too bad so I continued skiing, and after a few turns it felt good again.
After some good powder we ended up under the ski lift (and I hate skiing under the ski lift), and we came to a cliff. Since I've never skied here before, I chickened out of jumping off the cliff since I didn't know how the landing was.
I took off my skis, sent them over the cliff, and walked around the cliff into this really thick forest... I lost my grounding and suddenly found myself doing a somersault into a tree. In the fall I lost my poles, and I had to climb up to get them. After this we skied down in some good powder, but I was really exhausted...
It must have been quite a show for the people in the lift.
Then after a few more runs, we took the lift to the top of the hill, and it was blowing a gale, and we had to use our poles to actually get down again. Not even force of gravity managed to pull us down without help. The wind was just too strong.... :mad:
Since we needed to get some warmth in our bodies after the wind experience we followed some kids into a forest run. Almost at the bottom of this run, I missed a turn, and suddenly felt myself falling while doing this frightened scream, and somehow doing a 180 in the fall. It was only about 2m. I landed in a stream on the only place that was covered in snow and ice (luckily), and not water and rocks... Off with my skis again, and climb up and put on them on again. And ski down. Both me and my Auras got from this experience without a scar. Maybe a bit frightened...
I did one more run, before giving up all together and drove home.
After a long and warm shower, and after taking off my knee tape, my left knee hurts while walking on it, so I will now take a few days off skiing, and just stay at home and psych myself up again for some skiing that hopefully goes much better than this trip. Since the two previous trips this week have been really great.
The first run was piste skiing and that was good, then the second run was when everything started to go wrong. We went off piste a place I've never skied before, and on one of the first turns, I hurt my left knee. It didn't seem too bad so I continued skiing, and after a few turns it felt good again.
After some good powder we ended up under the ski lift (and I hate skiing under the ski lift), and we came to a cliff. Since I've never skied here before, I chickened out of jumping off the cliff since I didn't know how the landing was.
I took off my skis, sent them over the cliff, and walked around the cliff into this really thick forest... I lost my grounding and suddenly found myself doing a somersault into a tree. In the fall I lost my poles, and I had to climb up to get them. After this we skied down in some good powder, but I was really exhausted...It must have been quite a show for the people in the lift.
Then after a few more runs, we took the lift to the top of the hill, and it was blowing a gale, and we had to use our poles to actually get down again. Not even force of gravity managed to pull us down without help. The wind was just too strong.... :mad:
Since we needed to get some warmth in our bodies after the wind experience we followed some kids into a forest run. Almost at the bottom of this run, I missed a turn, and suddenly felt myself falling while doing this frightened scream, and somehow doing a 180 in the fall. It was only about 2m. I landed in a stream on the only place that was covered in snow and ice (luckily), and not water and rocks... Off with my skis again, and climb up and put on them on again. And ski down. Both me and my Auras got from this experience without a scar. Maybe a bit frightened...
I did one more run, before giving up all together and drove home.
After a long and warm shower, and after taking off my knee tape, my left knee hurts while walking on it, so I will now take a few days off skiing, and just stay at home and psych myself up again for some skiing that hopefully goes much better than this trip. Since the two previous trips this week have been really great.
