3 posts tagged “skiing”
I went to Inawashiro Minero yesterday, as usual. It was really nice weather. Contrast between a beautiful shiny blue sky and while snow was great. Even though it was pretty warm, snow condition was nice.
I love steep, but compacted by snow-cat(cat compacted snow courses. Inawashiro Minero has several black diamonds, and my favorite course is the west side of Akahani giant slalom course.
http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/resortdetail.php?resid=89
In Canada, I have been to Banff (Lake Louise, Sunshine Village, Mt.Norquay) and Whistler & Blackcomb before. Among those places, Mt.Norquay is my favorite.
Last Saturday, on December 9th, my husband and I went to a skiing resort, Minowa by name. It was the same place we went last Wednesday when we took a day off. Minowa is the third nearest skiing mountain from our home. It takes about 40 minutes to drive there. The nearest skiing place is about 25 minutes away, but it's a bit small and the slopes are too easy for us.
The weather was pretty bad again. It was quite foggy and I could hardly see anything. Moreover, it was snowing and overcrowded. Therefore, I decided to stay at the lodge and learn English while my husband enjoyed skiing.
The weather was pretty bad again. It was quite foggy and I could hardly see anything. Moreover, it was snowing and overcrowded. Therefore, I decided to stay at the lodge and learn English while my husband enjoyed skiing.
Whether it is correct or not I used "lodge" here, as what I meant to say was those places where we take a break and have some drinks/meals, or use rest rooms at ski resorts. In Japan, we call them "rest houses", pronounced like "resuto hausu", but I am not sure what to call them in English.
Anyway, I brought along my best friend, iPod nano, along with an electric dictionary, Steve's book, some printed papers which I copied from his vox blog, downloaded reading contents from The Linguist, and my pen case which is packed with a lot of several different styles and colors of gel pens. (Collecting gel pens is one of my hobbies, by the way. My favorite pen series is SARARA 0.4mm point.)
A table and a chair I occupied there were pretty comfortable, much better than my desk and chair at home, I could say. For that reason, I really enjoyed learning English there. Interestingly enough, with limited learning materials, I could concentrate more than I usually do with full resources in my home.
Because I found this ubiquitous learning very effective for me, when I went skiing again yesterday, I brought a couple of folded papers I printed from Steve's blog (oops! sounds like I am a brownnoser?? :->) , a red SARARA pen and iPod nano in my inner pocket. However, the weather was nice, so I just enjoyed skiing, which was also wonderful to me anyway.
My husband and I took a day off and went skiing at Minowa yesterday. It was our first time for the 2006-2007 season.
The weather wasn't as good as we were expecting. It was quite foggy. I couldn't see anything around the top of ski lift C as a pretty nasty whiteout hit halfway down while we were there. Snow conditions ware a bit hard but not icy. Lift C was the only one available; therefore, I got bored after going down the same hill ten or more times.
That night, I went to Rice Lake House as always on Wednesday. On the way over there, a couple of houses were decorated with very beautiful Christmas illuminations.
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