XC Skier

Getting prepared to go cross country skiing. The Oro kids went last weekend for their first lessons (part of an 8 lesson package) and Kieran was wanting to go. So we booked a private lesson this weekend and it was his first time xc-skiing. He's downhilled last year and we wanted to get him into it this year.


And this is how we warmed up. By throwing the kids in the snow banks along the driveway.
We'd just been watching a dinosaur documentary on how the veloceraptor eat their prey while it's technically still alive on National Geographic.

2 kids down. 2 to go.



This is Roy. Kieran's instructor. The private lesson was $32.00 + $12.00 for the rentals. It was for an hour and he gave him the basics and took him on the trail.
Tresa and I did the North Green trail minus Guether's Grind and Fox Run. We were back in time to see Kieran come back from his lesson with the instructor on the West Yellow trails.

It was warm out. About 0 deg C. And slippery. I had put on some wax on my skiis, but I was having a hard time getting any grip. I was picking up the rear and working my butt off just to stay with in sight of Tresa and my brother. Of course I'm the only one with the wax skiis.

Kieran was practicing the technique of ski jumping like Dedek.

But was more like the agony of defeat.

Good thing the hill was small.

He got the hang of it pretty quick. So we took him on the Green North trail for a short run.

The instructor said he didn't need any more lessons this year, just to bring him out to practice. So we'll come up more often to hit the trails. Wonder if he'll be able to do all of the North Green trail. The uphills might be tough. But I'm wondering about the downhills....he seems to like those. I'll get him a helmet. Just to be on the safe side.

Horseshoe valley XC trail map.

Tresa's needing a new pair of XC-skiis. Then we'll see who's slip sliding all over the place. Those skiis with the addidas running shoes clipped onto them belong in a museum back in Finland.

I'm sure they'd be happy to have these in their museum of natural history. To show the kids of today what the original settlers of their country used to get around.

They're even cracked at the back end of one of them. Time to let go of these and put them in their rightful place beside these ones here.

Her skiis were the next generation of these ones on the wall of the chalet. Almost the same, except for the paint job.


Then it was time to hit the hills and slide down the drifts.
Why pay for a ski pass when this is all they want to do?

It's free.
Besides you don't get all these parents that just bud in front of you just because they are in a hurry to get their kids rentals. Hey..we're all waiting for the same thing. Get to the back of the line and wait your turn. Twice it happened. Once to pay and then again when we were getting Kieran's skiis. Geezus Murphy. What's wrong with people. We took up XC because the downhill yuppies with their 2.1 kids and shiny Karbon outfits were a pain, now they've made their way to XC too. Go learn some manners.