When skiing is really bad…

To ring up the new year the right way, I went skiing with my daughter on Monday, the first day of 2024. As much as possible, we chose places that were off of the beaten path, free of crazy, speedy vacationers and definitely not on groomed runs. 

We decided to go in the morning as we figured that a large number of skiers would be far too hungover to ski that early in the day. True assumption, but still quite a large number of devoted skiers who had behaved the night before thought the same way we did! 

On the challenging slopes we usually prefer, it was therefore a game of avoiding ugly moguls, twigs, saplings and rocks and it demanded that we paid super attention and considerably slowed down our normal, fast pace. 

For what little skiing we did that morning we were tired and glad to call it quit around noon. So what was the takeaway of this first run of the new year? 

Those terrible skiing conditions are a fantastic opportunity to improve one’s skiing as long as no one gets hurt. 

Hopefully, the drought should end soon, if the weather forecast is any indication!