Traversing snow

Spend a thousand going to Korea to ski? $2000 heading to Whistler for a week or so of fun and excitement? No! This is what i did yesterday:

1. Pay $39 + a few hours of driving to go on a SAMSU/CUSA skitrip.


2. includes ski + boot rental, ski lift ticket, and lesson


3. Disdain lesson completely and go learn from friends


4. Fall down in front of a bunch of kids while trying to go up a tiny slope by holding on to a rope pull


5. Learn that skis need to be parallel to direction of motion in order to prevent falling down


6. Get ambitious after 2 tries down an easy slope and try an intermediate one


7. Fall down repeatedly. Adopt "Learning by doing" philosophy.


8. Try again. Fail embarrassingly.


9. Adopt "Learning by doing on a simple slope where you can experiment technically and improve technique" philosophy


10. Finally get some sort of technique together and manage to do intermediate slopes without falling (yay)


11. Fall asleep for 10 hours


12. Discover that yes, truly, muscles that i didn't know existed are now aching.

And of course as with most other things in life, skiing (and resultant conversation at dinner) made me realise: the shortest distance between two points may be a straight line, but sometimes the best path is the winding one, lest your overeagerness to reach the end makes you fall over and lose your footing.