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« on: December 23, 2008, 01:34:42 PM » |
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Hey Bella
I just read your blog and I could just see you both skiing and falling- it reminds me of when Jusi and I went skiing and Jusi fell over while he was on the T-bar on the way up the mountain- I laughed that hard I had to close my eyes, otherwise I was also going to fall over too. To his credit, he did not let go of the bar. He just continued to ride it on his back until he got to the top.
Hope you guys also have a lovely white christmas- Marijke emailed me the other day and told ne she had seen you both.
See you somewhere around the world next year.
x
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Matthieu O’Halloran - "M@"
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« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2008, 03:25:24 AM » |
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Hey Bella your blog reminded me of when I use to have cross-crountry skiing classes in high school and even did some regional races! I remember tuking my baggy jeans in my ski boots and tying my hoody on tight and then just giving her shit for 2-3kms over these nicely groomed golf courses! Wow the starts for those are brutal because everybodies skies would get caught up! But that sport was not fast enuff for me! Merry x-mast and remember theres is a drafting factor in x-skiing  |
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BellaBayliss
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« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2008, 03:59:19 AM » |
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Hi Belinda! Great to hear from you!!! Hi Mat! Great to hear from you too!!! Yeeahh, that bloody x-country skiing. i still have a black and blue ass and a dead arm from falling!!!  but I am getting on with things anyway! I'll stay away from that I think, although it looks so great today. Sunny, bright and snowy. Maybe if I do it again I stick to the flat and not get tempted to go down some dodgy steep hill! Its amazing, there are a tonn of skiers out there, but we are about to go for a ride on our bikes cos the roads are dry and clean! we'll take the opertunity while we can! Have a lovely Christmas and see out there somewhere soon Belinda, and see you Mat soon! Bella.x |
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« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2008, 10:02:01 AM » |
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Its amazing, there are a tonn of skiers out there, but we are about to go for a ride on our bikes cos the roads are dry and clean! we'll take the opertunity while we can!
That is so funny as it is exactly our winter experience here in Colorado. We have been riding outside according to the weather (when it is not snowing and roads are not too icy). Two days ago we jumped at a window of opportunity for a mid arvo mtb ride in what remains of the snow as the temperature had temporarily gone above 0C. Discovered it was -5C when we finished! Not much quality riding with dodging the ice and snow patches, so more trainer work from now - heaps more  The upside is that the treadmill, indoor pool and especially the SAUNA are getting great workouts - but we keep wearing out the treadmills at the gym! By the end of winter we could be competitive at the sauna sitting world championships in Finland! Actually I've already had a number of 'unofficial' sauna sitting battles here - lol  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Sauna_Championshipshttp://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g75hpkJkZxai_HKaJVyhgusMVUIA |
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nicola
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« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2008, 05:57:23 AM » |
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hey Bella! I just was x-country skiing a few hours ago I am up in my parents holiday house for one or two weeks, great for skiing (and very bad for running or cycling as there is not a single road up here...)! Today we combined x-country skiing and downhill skiing: Reto and me took our x-country skis and were skiing up the hill where all the other people went on the normal skis DOWNHILL, hihi... Very hard, but the downhill on the x-cross country skis was even more difficult, I think I will have a few sore spots tomorrow too...  but Benji would say: So much fun!!!  a late merry christmas nicola |
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Caroline Koll - "Bean"
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« Reply #5 on: December 26, 2008, 11:11:50 AM » |
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Happy Holidays to both of you!
Read your blog, sounds really fun! Funny enough, this morning, I was commenting with a few buds about how interesting it would be to have Christmas with real snow! I would SOOOO love to try the cross country skiing (the downhill stuff looks far to scary, even on a MTB, if it goes down I get off!!!), it looks like it works your quads and arms am I right? Sadly, chance of snow here ever is pretty slim - it last snowed here for 5 minutes in 1981, so have no idea what it looks and feels like! Stay upright and warm...
Caroline
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Jocelyn Wong - "Wongstar"
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« Reply #6 on: December 26, 2008, 02:04:16 PM » |
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Merry Christmas everyone personally I think Christmas in the summer sounds bizarre!!  I'd like to have a beach BBQ Christmas... much better than a cold, white Christmas! not that we have either here...no snow...but it's cold...! |
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« Reply #7 on: December 26, 2008, 09:44:19 PM » |
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Hi Nicola, Hi Caroline, Hi Jocelyn!
Good to hear from you!
Is that kind of skiing you were doing Nicola, called Telemark ? do you have skins on for going up, then take them off for coming down?
Sounds good. One day I want to do it!
Nicola, your Mum and Dad sound like they live in the middle of no-where like my Mum and Dad!!
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« Reply #8 on: December 27, 2008, 11:06:08 AM » |
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i have only been downhill skiing and snowboarding once each, both times in college in California and I think it was fake snow too...! I got black and blue from snowboarding, a ton of falling on my bum...
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« Reply #9 on: December 27, 2008, 12:03:05 PM » |
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lucky landings
most break their wrists
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nicola
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« Reply #10 on: December 27, 2008, 01:11:43 PM » |
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Hi Bella, no, we were actually really going up the normal ski hill with our normal cross country skis we had a crazy friend with us who knew the way and he told us we should ski up the hill, while he was sneaking away and taking the skilift ... of course it wasn't a really steep hill, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to go up. The skins you mean you put under the skis I think is called mountaineering in english. I love to do that as you can go to places where no one else is, it's absolutely stunning to walk thru snow landscape without seeing a single human trace! My father and I do it almost every day at the moment, you really should try it (not as exhausting as cross country skiing, but you can get the heartrate up to 180 as well ) And yes, my parents live in the middle of nowhere, but only in their holidays we are in their holiday house in the mountains, normally they live close to Zürich, very civilized, hihi Have a good time Nicola |
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BellaBayliss
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« Reply #11 on: December 27, 2008, 08:59:48 PM » |
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Thanks for that Nicola!
One of these days I will put your advice into action!
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nicola
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« Reply #12 on: December 28, 2008, 01:01:19 PM » |
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great, but if you go on a real mountaineering tour, it's probably better to take someone with you who knows the area because of avelanches and so on. but it's also fun to just walk up besides the ski slopes, pretty weird the first time when you walk uphill instead of riding downhill on the skis have a good time! nicola |
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« Reply #13 on: December 28, 2008, 08:54:11 PM » |
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good advice! although, I think I would be sticking to tracks if I did it, there are too many cliffs up there to go adventuring where ever you wanted!
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« Reply #14 on: December 28, 2008, 11:00:13 PM » |
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fiona has a nice path for you bella up near our place
she thinks with boots only you can run right to the burnese summit and back , at this time ,
get onto her ,and she will tell you where to go
as zali and her ski it to go home .
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