Where Is Located The Best Alpine Skiing?
Watching downhill skiers on TV gives the impression that it's easy. They make it look so natural, unless they take a fall of course. Cross Country was the first skiing sport until the invention of tow lifts which brought Alpine Skiing. The Swiss, Austrians and Italians have dominated the sport. A lot of young kids in the Alps can ski as soon as they can walk and go to school on their skis everyday.
Olympic ambitions are left to the daredevils as most people ski as a leisure pursuit. Being popular with the young, snowboarding, has joined Alpine Skiing. Racing down slopes on planks of wood does seem a crazy thing to do. Having done it myself, I know how exhilarating it could be. I have skied in Scotland in the fog and over sheer ice. One day I hit a sheet of ice and couldn't prevent myself from crashing into a picket fence. There was a log cabin at the top of the hill where they sold hot chocolate, coffee and snacks. The local herd of reindeer would come up to the cabin and feed from your hand. Yes Alpine Skiing is really amazing!
I had another great skiing experience in Austria. The weather and snow conditions were ideal there. Nothing can beat Alpine Skiing when the sun shines and the snow glitters in the sunlight. Apres Ski was great too and I remember drinking a lot of great wine. I stayed in a picture postcard little village in a typical Alpine cottage. In the small village, there was this amazing church which was adorned with frescoes and gold. One night, my friends and I went to a local bar and I had rather too much schnapps. I suffered the next day and my Alpine Skiing had to be put on hold.
I promised myself to go skiing again and try to improve. They just open a very big dry slope near my home, and that could be a good way to get back into it again. I may even try out snowboarding lessons; I don't see why the young should have all the fun. When I was in Austria, we had a trip to Innsbruck and we visited the old site for the Winter Olympics there. I stood at the top of what was the ski jump slope, and the incline is incredible. It's impossible to have an idea of what ski jumping is like from television. Sometimes, Alpine Skiing and its various events, must feel like flying. The only time that I ever flew was by pure accident!
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