Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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