Thursday, March 18, 2004
I survived Snow Blades!!
Well, Barbara (the other resort mananger) mentioned the word snow blades down the pub last night, so the challenge was taken up and we survived!! For those of you who don't know, snow blades are just very short skis that attach to your ski boots in a slightly different way, and don't come off if you fall (potentially bad!), and you whizz around the mountain on them with no poles.... so firstly you have to get your balance right - basically in the middle as they are too short to let you lean too far back or forwards - and then you have to deal with not having any poles - this is quite bizarre, as although you are sure you don't really use your poles, all of a sudden not having any makes you feel really wobbly!!
Anyhow, both of us survived a few hours on the piste (ok, so we did make 2 bar stops, 1 for a drink, 1 for an icecream!) and had a really good laugh. We're still in one piece, so will have to see if we can get back on skis tomorrow!
The past few days have been so warm.... we went to Albertville yesterday as it was day off, and just to get down the mountain and avoid the snow/slush...we didn't manage to find the nice part of Albertville so ended up at MacDonalds instead - I know that sounds really sad, but I've not had a MacDonalds since I've been out here, so it was actually a pleasant treat!!
I'm still fighting unsuccessfully with Hotmail.... unable to connect yesterday or today... I'll keep trying!
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Well, Barbara (the other resort mananger) mentioned the word snow blades down the pub last night, so the challenge was taken up and we survived!! For those of you who don't know, snow blades are just very short skis that attach to your ski boots in a slightly different way, and don't come off if you fall (potentially bad!), and you whizz around the mountain on them with no poles.... so firstly you have to get your balance right - basically in the middle as they are too short to let you lean too far back or forwards - and then you have to deal with not having any poles - this is quite bizarre, as although you are sure you don't really use your poles, all of a sudden not having any makes you feel really wobbly!!
Anyhow, both of us survived a few hours on the piste (ok, so we did make 2 bar stops, 1 for a drink, 1 for an icecream!) and had a really good laugh. We're still in one piece, so will have to see if we can get back on skis tomorrow!
The past few days have been so warm.... we went to Albertville yesterday as it was day off, and just to get down the mountain and avoid the snow/slush...we didn't manage to find the nice part of Albertville so ended up at MacDonalds instead - I know that sounds really sad, but I've not had a MacDonalds since I've been out here, so it was actually a pleasant treat!!
I'm still fighting unsuccessfully with Hotmail.... unable to connect yesterday or today... I'll keep trying!
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