Saturday I spent the day at Mt. Baker skiing. It was fantastic. I haven’t been to Baker since I was about 18, and it was my first ski day of the season. There was so much snow and I even enjoyed the road-trip feel of it- it’s a few hours south of Vancouver.
Skiing is my winter pastime. Last season I spent the winter at Whistler, and this season I’m dedicating the majority of my ski days to the backcountry. I had started trying to prepare for skiing by running recently. It seems it was a sad attempt to prepare my body for skiing, however, as I struggled to bend over on Sunday and Monday. Skiing, in case you didn’t know, works the lower back and abs in a whole new way. I always forget that (despite feeling “in shape”) I am never in good skiing shape the first few days of the season.
The sore muscles the day after skiing made me think more about cross training. I realized that so many times we think of ourselves as a Climber or a Skier or a Yogi or…??… and yet in essence, I love to cross train. I think that’s probably why I’ve struggled to commit to buying a single pass for anything- I don’t want to be locked into doing just one thing all the time. I like flexibility and it turns out that’s a good thing. I looked further into cross training, and it seems it’s a great way to reduce the likelihood of injury!
So here’s to winter and new fallen snow and crosstraining. I think I’ll do some yoga tomorrow to stretch out these sore muscles…and get ready for skiing next weekend.
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Thanks for sharing – I also went skiing for the first time this past weekend. My arms and legs are still sore today. I love that feeling of discovering new muscles that you haven’t heard from for while :-).
Wow!
I’ve been hesitating a bit to actually go out and BUY the new ski gear that I’ve been diligently researching. But not any more! Seeing your smiling face in all that snow totally disengaged the brakes! Thanks!!!
Let’s get a group ski-trip going this winter for sure!!!
I think a group ski trip would be fun some night after work at Grouse or something? I try not to pay for lift tickets very much- I’m trying to do backcountry days this season…but I’ll make an exception for all you downhillers 🙂
I believe we even have some snowboarders in HSE and we could lower ourselves to skiing with them I guess. (*coughCalvincough*) hehe 🙂
Yes, it is mighty good of us to be charitable like that, eh? Compassion for those less fortunate than us…. 🙂
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