| Snow can be the best plaything on Earth. One can | | | | want to go faster, they move their legs a little closer |
| have a snow ball fight and make a snow man with it. | | | | together. When they want to stop, they push the V |
| One can spend a chilly Sunday afternoon sledding | | | | out farther. This gets them ready for the next stage |
| down it until it is nothing but muddy mush and the | | | | of skiing, the green hill. |
| snow clothes need cleaning. One can use it for a | | | | The green hill is still for beginners, but also for novice |
| home like the Eskimos and polar bears do. One can | | | | skiers. Not too many instructors will take their classes |
| snow ski on it, either for recreational purposes or for | | | | here because skiers are working on getting the |
| a professional competition. Regardless of what one is | | | | techniques of starting and stopping down, taking a |
| skiing for, it is always fun, until someone misses | | | | chance on how fast they can go, and gaining |
| getting off of the chair lift! Watch out for that skier, | | | | confidence. There may be a few more trees to line |
| it is a sign that they are a beginner and will run into | | | | the green hill or runs, but they are not in the way of |
| you, if you are in their way. | | | | the skier. They are more of a natural fence than |
| In order to ski, one needs the right equipment. No | | | | anything else. |
| one should be skiing in shorts and a tank top, but it | | | | The blue runs are for advanced skiers. Novice skiers |
| has been done (and not well). If you are a beginner, | | | | should not try these runs until they are skiing down |
| you will be falling a lot, and mostly on your rear. | | | | the green runs without stopping, falling, or feeling |
| Strapping a pillow to it will not help because it will just | | | | afraid. The blue runs contain steeper slopes which |
| throw your balance off. So, get some warm, | | | | allow the skier to "slice" down the mountain instead |
| cushioned snow bibs, or a snow outfit, a nice warm | | | | of using the "snow plow" technique. There may be |
| jacket, woolen socks, because the electric ones do | | | | moguls which are bumps in the snow that a skier can |
| not really work all that well especially when they get | | | | either ski over or ski around, but these can throw a |
| wet, gloves, hat, ski boots, and skis and hit the | | | | skier off balance and into the snow, if they are not |
| slopes, preferably the bunny hill. | | | | careful. The moguls here are usually visible, to give |
| The bunny hill is the hill where people learn to ski. | | | | the skier time to decide what they want to do to |
| There will be ski instructors there with classes made | | | | get over the mogul. |
| up of kids who are in 1st grade to grandparents who | | | | The black diamond and double black diamond runs are |
| have never skied in their lives. This is the best place | | | | the hardest runs. They contain moguls, a steep slope, |
| for a beginner to be because it is a gentle slope with | | | | sharp turns, and other obstacles that an expert skier |
| minimal trees and a very slow ski speed. Here, the | | | | would know how to negotiate. The thing to |
| beginner will be taught to ski by using the "snow | | | | remember about skiing is to never leave the trail. It |
| plow" technique. This is where the skier begins | | | | could kill you. |
| moving and has their feet in a V shape. When they | | | | |