Spring Skiing

We couldn't let the ski season go without having one more trip to the mountain. We're glad we went when we did since the snow wasn't going to stay around much longer. You can see by the video that the only snow around is the snow that the ski area carefully makes, protects, and manages. We could clearly see that there was a golf course that lies under the snow and it was exposed enough that I thought there may be a few hardy players playing through.

William built on his skills developed last time. Although he could turn last time, he preferred the more direct approach (straight down the mountain in a flying wedge). We wanted to work up to the steepest hill in the ski area! A daunting widow maker run called slope 'C'. (OK, it would likely rate a blue square in the US, but since Japan doesn't seem to mark their runs for difficulty, we could easily have called it a double diamond!) but we needed to prove that he could control his speed with linked turns.

William worked on his turns on the easy slopes and we then headed up to the steep slopes. He did very well and was able to control his speed without taking up ALL of the slope. He was having such a great time that he didn't really want to leave. I was having a great time too, but we needed to head home.

We're looking forward to next season when we'll maybe stretch ourselves to slope 'D'...