I need a new pastime. These conditions make me wonder why I even go out.
I headed out to P11 seeing as they has groomed it "1 hour" ago. It was too hard and fast for me to enjoy and had obviously been groomed quite a bit earlier. I had visions of dying alone on a too-fast downhill and a hiker or nude bather finding my bleached remains in May. Then I headed to P10, where some sort of shallow grooming had been done to the skate lane, but nothing recent to the classic tracks (yeah it would be great to be able to skate on this stuff, but I can't, so perhaps Demsis should issue separate classic and skate passes? Are we second class citizens?). They were icy and bumpy, and I just didn't feel like having one of those kinds of skis today. THEN I headed to P6. I skied down trail 7 (whee fast) and then onto the connector trail. It all looked beautiful, just like slippery, hard-frozen styrofoam. After 400 meters I had no grip whatsoever as I had completely forgotten to put on a bomb-proof binder before I left home. All that gas and I didn't ski more than 3 k. Anyway, it was all too icy and hard for me to really enjoy. To top it all off the weather wasn't really pleasant. It felt much colder than it was (minus 7) with a raw wind. I'm waiting for spring to return.