Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, January 21, 2015
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Winding Trails: by Al Hobart
Thursday, January 21, 1965
Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction
Learning To Ski Part 1
Snow, snow, beautiful snow; why in
the – well, why don’t you go slow! You’re
so white and so fluffy, and love you so,
but after all, there’s a limit, you know!
That’s what being marooned does to
a fellow. As his mind scuttles erratically
thither and yon which will collapse first,
the garage or the cabin? When the cabin’s
completely buried under the snow how
long will it take me to suffocate? When it
collapses, what will be the primary cause
of my passage Yonder, the crushing weight
of the hundred-ton roof, the smashed red-
hot heating stove or the broken propane
line? As I say, with the mind performing
such fearful acrobatics it’s not at all
surprising that it should stumble onto such
a rich vein of unsuspected poesy.
After surviving a devastating flood,
and after miraculously bearing up through
the abrupt change of my erstwhile
joyous way of life, due to my road out to
civilization having been destroyed by the
flood, now my tottering existence seems
further threatened by an unending series of
malicious snowstorms.
It has been snowing steadily all day,
after coming down all last night. An hour
ago I measured the depth – 33 inches.
If that isn’t a record for the last 341/2
years it’s getting close to it. And if my
little radio is telling the truth, which it
sometimes does in its weather forecasting,
tomorrow will see the arrival of the
heaviest snowstorm of the lot.
But, impending disaster
notwithstanding, I have been taking
precarious advantage of the deep blanket
of snow that covers my meadow slope
below the cabin. Some time ago, in a
moment of madness, I acquired a pair of
skis; and, tightwad that I am, I’m resolved
to get my money’s worth out of them if I
twist every one of these calcified old oints
right out of their sockets. Don’t laugh,
friend; at this so-called sport it isn’t just
your knuckles that pop when you jump the
track.
I’ve had two sessions on the new skis
or rather, with the skis. he first time
went out for practice the snow was about
8” deep and not very dry. The slope isn’t
very steep and I didn’t seem to be going
very fast. After a time I got so I could ride
the skis clear to the bottom of the run, and
happily told myself that had the first
step mastered.
A couple of days later the snow was
2 ft. deep, with 8 or 10 in. of dry powdery
snow on top. I took my skis to the top
of the run, confidently climbed aboard
and fastened the bindings. Sounds easy,
doesn’t it? What makes this part easy
is the big ponderosa pine at my take-
off point that holds me in place while I
fasten my bindings, hastily review my
memorized instructions (which promptly
flee my mind once ’ve begun that hair-
raising flight down slope and get s uared
away with my skis pointed in the proper
direction. Then, with my ski poles held
at the recommended angle, my knees
properly flexed and body leaning slightly
forward, I utter a small prayer and cast off
from my friendly ponderosa.
But things have changed since the
temperature dropped and the snow became
drier. The instant I forsook my protective
tree I shot down the slope like a mistreated
cat. The stance I’d become accustomed
to on my previous trials ust didn’t fit
the occasion. Too late I discovered that
I wasn’t leaning far enough forward.
Immediately thereafter instead of -two
tracks in the snow I was leaving four.
n the next hour and forty-five minutes
I experienced every tumble known
to skidom, incidentally contributing
several new and choice epithets to the
internationally accepted voskibulary.
My most spectacular fall was by far
the funniest, and since there was no one
else there to enjoy it, I laughed enough for
all of us. I don’t know why it happened,
whether I hit a depression in the snow or
whether I was putting too much weight
on the front end of my skis. Anyway, the
skis suddenly (everything on skis is done
suddenly) decided to submerge. The tips
plowed down into the snow, and I plowed
through space, describing a short arc in
a split-second flight that ended with me
buried face down in the soft snow. When
I came up for air I waited several seconds
for the dense cloud of flying snow to
settle, then discovered that it was plastered
solidly on my glasses. Then the picture
of what a sight it must have been to the
imaginary bystanders suddenly struck me
and I laughed out loud like a stir-nutty
zany. And I’m glad it happened, because
every time I think of it I have to laugh, and
lately there hasn’t been too much to laugh
about in our neighborhood.
Well, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll chunk
up the heater and head for my private ski-
pasture. I’m anxious to see if I can get
onto making a turn on those blue streaks
of greased lightning without being tossed
bodily into Dunn’s Creek.
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