A Sunday Ski

This afternoon was stunning- it was a sunny and beautiful day and so we drove up to the top of the plateau, which is still totally snow covered, to ski.

The way up was great. We put skins (strips of furry cloth that stick to the bottom of your skis) on our skis so that they would only move forward, and climbed up a mountain- here's the view down to the Adventdalen valley and Isfjorden:











Going down was a whole other matter. Without your heels attached to your skis turning is interestingly difficult in spring snow, and so my introduction to telemarking was mostly: slide, freakout, turn, fall.... slide, shout, turn, fall...

Here, Jonathon shows us how it's done: