The thing about learning a new skill is you have to practice! I actually have to DO it! Going to St. George this week meant I only got out one day after we got home. It had to be Friday, because Saturday we were getting a big snow storm which was supposed to come in around 3pm and we had plans to go to the temple that morning.
Unfortunately, in Park City our closest temple is Salt Lake- which is none too close! With the live sessions, the traffic and the parking it all takes soooo much longer than we are used to! We were so spoiled by a 5 minute drive to the temple in Bellevue. To make matters worse, the Salt Lake City temple is closed just now for maintenance, the next closest- Jordan River has been closed for a few months for renovation, so we had to drive to Bountiful.
In general going to the temple from our house takes about 4 hours, Saturday it took even longer. After a quick stop at Costco to stock up (no Costco in PC) we go back up the hill just as the storm broke. I can't believe what sissies those east coasters are- 2 feet of snow? We live with that on a daily basis! and ABSOLUTELY love it!
Back to my original train of thought- skiing.....
BTW, don't I look fetching in my cute faux fur wrapped hat? It's one of those treasures we found at the consignments shop in St. George! I could hardly wait to get home, so I could wear it. It was 63 degrees in St. George when we were there and we were running around in shirt sleeves, so no hat-wearing there.
On Friday, the cross-country course in back of our house was groomed differently than I had seen it before- with these grooves. I had seen this type of grooming at other x-country courses and had even used them once before when Chuck and I took a lesson up in Whistler years ago.
Our course usually is groomed with wider, flat paths to accommodate skate-skis, which of course classic skis can use as well. 95% of the skiiers around here skate ski. But for classic these grooves are HEAVEN!! You don't have to worry about controlling your skis (until you come to a corner) , you can just work on balance and lengthening your stride and gliding. All of which needed a lot of work.
Not having been on my skis for nearly a week, I felt like I was starting over, clumsy and off balance. See this hill behind me? I know it doesn't look like much, but it was long and downhill and ended in a bridge over a stream. I fell down FOUR times coming down that stupid hill!! When your skis are in the grooves it is impossible to snow plow to slow yourself down, and I kept freaking out because I was going so fast and headed toward a narrow bridge. I just knew I was going to end up in that stream!
Of, course, falling down slows one's forward progress sufficiently, that in the end, I made it safely across.
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