i decided to start out the new year hitting up my new fave place to ski:
http://www.cherryhillsnordic.com/
this is a local guy's backyard trail system gone mad. they went nuts in there last summer, and hauled in truckloads of dirt, redid the trails, worked out more of a deal with a neighboring golf course, and now there it is - an actual ski system. they groom like mad with $50k of equipment, and it's fabulous - maybe it's not minocqua winter park, but for a guy's backyard trails system it is insane.
i started with gretchen, going no-poles skating with her and a local doc who was striding. i kept that up for 2 hrs after gretchen went home, and then hooked onto a bunch of guys all skating for a total of 3 hrs or so. after going at it no-poles for 2 hrs beforehand i was suffering . . . we got a tour of the 5K hi-skool race course, which is pretty good to ski with a really nice mix of wooded speedy bits and 3 big-enuf-to-hurt hills, and we watched the orange helicopter fly over head on its way to pick up some fools out on an iceberg drifting into the bay . . . . . . . . i am pretty sure i have skiied more already this year than i did all of last, and i am digging it. for x-mas gretchen got me some boots i lusted after since the last olympics which rule, one of the best x-mas presents ever ( altho the sweet fixie/SS -themed z-boy-style lo-top vans MK got me are right in the hunt also ):
it looks like nothing but more snow for the next few weeks, so i am a skiier again.
http://www.cherryhillsnordic.com/
this is a local guy's backyard trail system gone mad. they went nuts in there last summer, and hauled in truckloads of dirt, redid the trails, worked out more of a deal with a neighboring golf course, and now there it is - an actual ski system. they groom like mad with $50k of equipment, and it's fabulous - maybe it's not minocqua winter park, but for a guy's backyard trails system it is insane.
i started with gretchen, going no-poles skating with her and a local doc who was striding. i kept that up for 2 hrs after gretchen went home, and then hooked onto a bunch of guys all skating for a total of 3 hrs or so. after going at it no-poles for 2 hrs beforehand i was suffering . . . we got a tour of the 5K hi-skool race course, which is pretty good to ski with a really nice mix of wooded speedy bits and 3 big-enuf-to-hurt hills, and we watched the orange helicopter fly over head on its way to pick up some fools out on an iceberg drifting into the bay . . . . . . . . i am pretty sure i have skiied more already this year than i did all of last, and i am digging it. for x-mas gretchen got me some boots i lusted after since the last olympics which rule, one of the best x-mas presents ever ( altho the sweet fixie/SS -themed z-boy-style lo-top vans MK got me are right in the hunt also ):
it looks like nothing but more snow for the next few weeks, so i am a skiier again.
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Aren't those the same boots that Eddy Merckx wore?
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