Going Skiing

            Do you like to ski? Well I do. I went skiing at Liberty Mt. in Pennsylvania. My dad and I are going there every Sunday starting from 1/1/13. We could go other places to ski at like Roundtop and Whitetail. We could choose to take lessons or ski by ourselves because we had Night club cards. We choose to take lessons because it was our first time skiing.

        We had to wait at the ski school meeting place so we could get a coach to train us. There was a lot of first timers so we had to have two groups, an adult group and a children group. Since it was our first time we didn't need to use our poles. The coach told me we were going on the first class trail. At first  I was really excited because on an airplane first class means best quality. But then I found out that here the first class trail was for the first classes.

        You can get up the mountain in four ways. two of the ways to get up the mountain are the " duck walk" and the "side walk." To do the "side walk", you have to make both feet parallel to each other. Then you have to walk up the hill horizontally. To do the "duck walk", you have to make your feet form a straight line. Then you just walk up the hill like that. The other two ways are the lift and the "magic carpet." The "magic carpet is just a flat conveyor belt that takes you up the hill. The lift is a bunch of chairs on a cable that takes you to the top of the hill.

       We had to practice stopping and turning. The two ways I use to stop are making a little wedge shaped a pizza or turning all the way until you stop.  To turn you have to make your skis face the direction you want to turn or you can make the edges of your skis face one way and you will turn. If you keep on turning you will eventually stop.

       When I finished skiing I was really tired so I returned my skis and went home. I hope I come back here because it was a great experience!