Hey Snow Bunnies! What Winter Sports Are You Enjoying?

[sylvie]

Our road is all ice beneath the snow. I noticed some strange tracks and realized that they were tracks of a runner using those metal coils on the shoes. I know she is training for half marathons and wondered if they worked well. I didn't see any body impressions in the snow so they must do the job.

 

[big brown horse]

I just got invited to go snow shoeing soon. Apparently you can rent them...I had no idea! There is snow about an hour's drive from here.

Oh sylvie, I know a marathon runner who swears by those "moose tracks" (I think that is what they call them) that you strap onto the bottoms of your shoes.

 

[sylvie]

I just got invited to go snow shoeing soon. Apparently you can rent them...I had no idea! There is snow about an hour's drive from here.

A friend rented some and snow shoed all day. When they came off he couldn't quit walking with feet "apart". His friends kidded him about having a rough night- if you know what I mean .
He said he should have kept snow shoes to 4 hours max for his first time on them.

 

[big brown horse]

I just got invited to go snow shoeing soon. Apparently you can rent them...I had no idea! There is snow about an hour's drive from here.

A friend rented some and snow shoed all day. When they came off he couldn't quit walking with feet "apart". His friends kidded him about having a rough night- if you know what I mean .
He said he should have kept snow shoes to 4 hours max for his first time on them.

Too funny!!! I'll keep that in mind. Though I highly doubt I would be able to last 4 hours in the snow anyway. :/

 

[patandchickens]

The only winter "sports" I do are things like trudging out to the horses 3-4 times a day; whamming frozen manure off the ground iwth a pickaxe or shovel then forking it up and hauling it to the manure shed; carrying water 300 ft to the barn when the barn water freezes up yet again; and walking the expletive-deleted cat (i.e. "being towed through snowdrifts by him every time he thinks he sees a vole under the snow").

I would not say I am *enjoying* any of them, as such


Pat, *so* not a winter person

 

[Henrietta23]

I haven't been up for much more than snow shoeing around the backyard or down the street before the plow comes. Unless Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games on the Wii counts?
Seriously, I've been afraid to downhill ski anymore. Mice ate my crosscountry boots and we don't have any decent groomed trails around here anyway for a beginner like me.... I've been suffering from plantar fasciitis. I hurt!
So I take pictures of the snow and watch the crazy puppy having fun it. I love it, but I'm a whimp when it comes to playing in it.

 

[k0xxx]

Like Henrietta23, Wii sports is about it, and the occasional Mario Carting. Being from the DEEP south, I've never been into the Winter sports too much. I do love making snow angels though, if that counts. Unfortunately, we didn't get much snow, so I've had to settle for making mud angels instead.

 

[abifae]

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[dragonlaurel]

I haven't been up for much more than snow shoeing around the backyard or down the street before the plow comes. Unless Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games on the Wii counts?
Seriously, I've been afraid to downhill ski anymore. Mice ate my crosscountry boots and we don't have any decent groomed trails around here anyway for a beginner like me.... I've been suffering from plantar fasciitis. I hurt!
So I take pictures of the snow and watch the crazy puppy having fun it. I love it, but I'm a whimp when it comes to playing in it.

My winter sports is pretty limited to what I can see out the window while keeping toasty.
Well, I did dash to the mailbox when the cold wind was more than I expected. (no ice at the time) We need snow pants before I'd think about the other stuff.

 

[dacjohns]

Snow boarding, slalom, and ski jumping. All on the Wii.