Snowboarding lessons!

Kathy and I have now taken two lessons at Crystal Mountain, a great hill to learn on just 15 minutes out of Westbank. We had a great instructor and small group sizes (today it was just us, basically a private lesson) and feel we've come a long way in two weeks!

Prior to this, we'd had one lesson at Silver Star (who's bunny hill is, well, crap now and about 20 feet long). We felt we did okay but certainly couldn't do anything with our toe side and linking turns was very far out of the picture.

In two lessons we're now able to (most importantly) get off the chairlift somewhat upright, turn on our heel and toe-sides, and link our turns together so that we almost look like we know what we're doing. It's very fun, and though I know my body will be in agony tomorrow, it's a great workout. Here's pictures from the two days, the first (last weekend) was all sun, it was amazingly nice out. Today we had freezing rain, some wind, cold temps and when you warmed up some all that ice on you melted and soaked you through. Even still, we had a great time.