As a whole family, we started to spend weekends enjoying down skiing back in winter 2011-2012. Our youngest was so little back then and she couldn’t stay on heavy skis by herself yet. Next year however she was able to start learning, that’s why we bought the straps. And it is an awesome thing, i would tell you! My little baby was sliding down, I was behind her and helped her to break using straps. She was my horse, i was her sled. That equipment helped her a lot, so the next winter after that we almost didn’t use the straps, only in one sharp turn of the track.
Unfortunately the last winter was so warm and snowless so we skipped the season.
As we’ve heard the current winter will be warm too, but at the current moment the snow level in the Meadows is not bad and with the temperature below freezing there is a hope that we will see more snow. That’s why we decided to give it a try. To my little disappointment Kate lost her skills so we started over. But that times she learned much faster and soon asked us to not use the straps except that last turn almost at the end of the track.
And while we were busy with Kate our elder kids tried to explore the unknown…