On our second ski day, the sun was shining and the power was restored. Much better day!
Chelsea is a little pro and has no trouble skiing with us.
Our only mishap occurred early in the day. We took the chairlift up, and we planned to ski a couple of easy runs and then take the lift back down if we determined that the long run down was too difficult. After getting off the lift, we skied a short run down to another lift. The problem came here - this lift was a t-bar, which is very common in Europe but very hard for the kids. You have to balance on a little bar and be drug up the mountain. This one also happened to be steep and bumpy.
We let Chelsea go first, followed by me, and then Larry held Cade. Well, Chelsea fell off about halfway up. I kept going, knowing that Larry would get her. He did, but he had quite a time. He wasn't sure what to do, but thought the best plan was to cross from the lift line over to the slope. The problem was that there was 3 feet of snow in between. Somehow, he drug himself and both kids plus gear through all that snow. It was not a peasant experience for any of them!
When I met them, they had just gotten though that. Well, now we were stuck. We couldn't get back to the chair lift without doing the t-bar again, and no one wanted to do that. Our only was out was down the mountain via a red (intermediate) slope. This provoked much anxiety in me, mostly because of Cade. Thankfully, we all made it down in one piece. There were tears and crashes, but none too serious. Larry ended up carrying Cade about a third of the way down. Needless to say, we were all glad to see the end and we called it a day after that!
No comments:
Post a Comment