How to Improve Your Skiing IMMEASURABLY!

Previously, we discussed why it is that “With Great Powder Comes Great Responsibility.” I also mentioned that the prospect of skiing down seven Chilean volcanoes was how we discovered our tried-and-trusted way to get into the back country safely. A side-effect of all this was that our skiing improved IMMEASURABLY! So pull up a pew and IContinue reading “How to Improve Your Skiing IMMEASURABLY!”

A Viking Charm Offensive – and Other Oxymorons.

Oxymoron – noun [ok-si-mawr–on]. Rhetoric. “A figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in ‘cruel kindness’ or ‘to make haste slowly.’” We went to bed in rapt antici…pation of an early start and getting first tracks, but our plans went horribly awry at midnight. The Vikings arrived! We got a small sense of how the monks of Lindisfarne might have felt in AD 793. We cowered in the dark while doors slammed,Continue reading “A Viking Charm Offensive – and Other Oxymorons.”

With Great Powder Comes Great Responsibility!

“Do you want to ski down seven Chilean volcanoes?” “COUNT ME IN!” This was how we discovered our tried-and-trusted way to get into the back country safely. We still have a few mountaineering skills to learn (and a head for heights to gain!) before we tackle “The Magnificent Seven” – and I’m not sure thatContinue reading “With Great Powder Comes Great Responsibility!”