My first ski adventure!!

Well, I've decided to rent cross country skis for the whole season and last Friday was my first time trying them out (also the first time skiing ever). It was very fun and very tiring. The hardest part was going up hill and instead of skiing I had to walk on the edge of my skis so the front ends were pointed out. There were some parts when I thought I was going to go down the hill backwards because my arms and legs hurt so much, but then I was reminded by one of my American friends that I went with: What goes up, must go down. So I kept going and going and going until we finally reached the top and after a while we crossed paths the down hill ski path. I went down part of it, but then the down hill path looked like it went straight off a cliff (but it was really just a super steep hill) and the cross country path went off to the right. But since cross country skis aren't made for stopping very well I had to fall before I got to the edge of the cliff of else I would have gone over. So, as we made our way down the not so steep hill I took off the skis and walked so I could rest a little and so I wouldn't have to worry about not being able to stop. Then we got to the bottom of the hill and I skied the rest of the way. Although we had to dash across another down hill slope while snowboarders and skiers were racing down past us. I didn't care if I got hit I just didn't want to start sliding down the hill because it was so foggy you couldn't even see the bottom. But I did make it across, and it was mostly flat with a little bit of a slope down. The very last part was up again, but it wasn't so bad this time. We spent a total of two hours skiing, but because I was so slow it was probably more like an hours worth of skiing.

My two American friends who helped me.


Part that I walked down.


Probably about 2-3 feet of snow still at Frognerseteren.


Path just at the end of our journey.


The three of us while waiting for the T-Bane (subway).

It was so foggy!!