Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Best way to tackle the winter. It sure isn't nice to cycle in, I'll tell you that much. It probably was uphill both ways: house and school on two separate hills with a tangible valley inbetween. I cycle a lot in Norway. The form of cycling called "tempo" (time trials) is useless there. There's rarely a flat stretch that is longer than 1 km. The rest is hills. Not always steep, but relentless. Daniel On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com> wrote: > In the height of the New England blizzard my wife and I went for our annual > XC ski vacation. We usually ski two to four weeks in Vermont, sometimes in > Canada, once in Gulmarg in Kashmir. It is masochism in the cold. My wife, > raised as a Norwegian farm girl, is a better skier than I although more > conservative. Skiing for rural Norwegians was an essential form of winter > transportation, not a sport. One of her earliest memories was riding on her > big brother's shoulders while they skied to the one room schoolhouse. The > way she tells the story it must have been uphill both ways. I learned to XC > ski during a winter assignment at Canada's Ft. Churchill during the Korean > War. The temperature averaged -48 C but it was a relief after a year of > ducking North Korean bullets. The pictures were taken by my wife with a > tiny > Canon camera. Cross country skiing has a lot of parallels with photography, > a subject that I would be happy to expound on if anyone asks. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Larry+xc+ski+2.jpg.html > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Larry+XC+ski.jpg.html > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >