Comments on: My First Cross-Country Skiing Experience /my-first-cross-country-skiing-experience/ All Things Norway, In English Sun, 01 Sep 2024 06:33:59 +0000 hourly 1 By: vanesa /my-first-cross-country-skiing-experience/#comment-10929 Sun, 10 Mar 2013 02:04:40 +0000 /?p=3519#comment-10929 Hi David,
good on you! Glad to hear you had a great time skiing. You will eventually adopt this very Norwegian pastime and nobody will be able to tell who’s the foreigner there. Keep it up!

]]> By: David Nikel /my-first-cross-country-skiing-experience/#comment-10750 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:10:51 +0000 /?p=3519#comment-10750 In reply to Mark Treleaven-Jones.

Great stuff, thanks Mark. I hope I’ll be able to say the same thing in the future!

]]> By: David Nikel /my-first-cross-country-skiing-experience/#comment-10749 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:08:33 +0000 /?p=3519#comment-10749 In reply to Andrea.

Well it took me almost two years so I totally understand! But I’m really glad I did. More to come too 🙂

]]> By: afrodite /my-first-cross-country-skiing-experience/#comment-10683 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 07:44:19 +0000 /?p=3519#comment-10683 Way to go David. I am glad that you liked it. Now about your delema on downhil ski or snowboard. You have to consider very well what you want to do. You can’t say that I will try once the ski and once the snowboard and then I will choose what to follow. Put down the pros and cons… Snowboard is very fun and if you are good on sports generaly, you will learn it very fast. But…. no pain no gain. If you are lazy and don’t like the pain it’s not for you. It has a lot of falling down, in the flat ground you will have to skate with one foot in order to move (while with the ski you will have the poles to pus). You’re life will be difficult in order to learn how to use the lifts ( the ground lifts and the aerial lifts). Eventually you will learn it, it’s not so difficult..But when you learn to snowboard, it’s a lot of fun. My advise?Take several lessons with a good teacher. It will ease your life.

I am doing snowboard by the way.

]]> By: Mark Treleaven-Jones /my-first-cross-country-skiing-experience/#comment-10617 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 16:53:41 +0000 /?p=3519#comment-10617 Good job! I too learned to ski at Skullerud at the tender age of 42. No proper lessons, just lots of “advice” and cajoling from my Norwegian partner and her father! But the bug had bitten and I can’t get enough now. We regularly start from Skullerud and I can’t believe how afraid I once was at the tiny little slope there. The last two years I have ventured into the mountains going hytte to hytte, and that is truly awesome. This year I even bought a Bjørn Dæhlie ski suit which, I believe, is tantamount to becoming a naturalised Norwegian! Keep up the good work.

]]> By: Andrea /my-first-cross-country-skiing-experience/#comment-10615 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 16:38:43 +0000 /?p=3519#comment-10615 Way to go, David! I have yet to get out and try this even though I swore I would when we moved here last year. But we did go dog sledding up north so at least I can say I tried something new =)

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