English Skiing - Lake District 2009/2010

Video of the 30th good, seems to ski/fly right along the Raise. Kite traffic jam further on though! Really good, they are still up there at sunset, and skiing by moonlight.

AllyG wrote:You can tell he's going quite fast from looking at the dogs. We have a collie as well, and he can run at 30 miles an hour when he's going flat out (racing our car!).

I would think it would be perfectly possible to ski on wet grass without any snow at all. Anyone fancy trying my theory out?

Ally

What did you do tie him to the wing mirror?

mfc,
He really can run that fast. Our old, sadly departed collie, used to be able to run at that speed as well. If you've ever had anything to do with collie dogs you know that one of the biggest problems with them is to stop them chasing things, particularly cars. Of course, it's very handy when they're chasing the right things, like cattle and sheep that are refusing to come out of the field.

I trained our dog out of chasing cars when we first had him, because it's so dangerous for the dog and the occupants of the car, but the other day I was driving home down our road, and he was sitting at the side of the road waiting for my husband who was helping on a neighbours farm. Anyway, he spotted it was our car and decided to race home. I kept an eye on him and the speedo, and he was definitely doing 30 mph.

Ally

bandit wrote:We've no section for English skiing on J2ski. This is a skiing video from last week, filmed in The Lake District. Great soundtrack, and really enjoyable to watch :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBWRH35Syfo

That's my back yard on the telly, really great to see the Cumbrian fells getting an outing on the J2ski site. On average I can get out at least three times a week to go fell running with our Border Collie, last two times out have been running through snow at about 600M & it is holding up pretty well. If conditions really improve & we get another season like last year there could be some good skiing to be had. :D
Must find out who the soundtrack was by, wouldnt mind adding that to the MP3 playlist.

Finn

Finn, I did the fell race at the Grassmere games. It was in the days of amateur amd professional, and since I wished to protect my amateur status, I entered as "Dave Smith". Turned out to be a few Dave Smiths, and a lot of John Smiths, a number of whom that I knew from our cross country league!

Dave Mac wrote:Finn, I did the fell race at the Grassmere games. It was in the days of amateur amd professional, and since I wished to protect my amateur status, I entered as "Dave Smith". Turned out to be a few Dave Smiths, and a lot of John Smiths, a number of whom that I knew from our cross country league!

Dare say you would have ran up onto Fairfield then Dave, great mountain in winter to gar for a good wander.

Finn

Also did the Karrimor one year, 50 miles fell running, over two days, partnering a guy who had previously won 3000m Gold in the European Championships. Needless to say, he carried most of the gear, did all of the map-reading, and all of the cooking.

We managed a few places behind the winners, Chris Brasher and Bill Dainty. Which was all fine and dandy, until a few years ago, someone pointed out that my name appeared in "A History of Fell Running"!

My K2s almost appear in the Carver Ski History. Bode Miller skied on the model before mine, when he won the US Junior.

Dave Mac wrote:Also did the Karrimor one year, 50 miles fell running, over two days, partnering a guy who had previously won 3000m Gold in the European Championships. Needless to say, he carried most of the gear, did all of the map-reading, and all of the cooking.

Dave
Last year the Karrimor was back in Lakeland but got called off half way through the event because of worsening weather conditions. None of the athlete's I spoke to wanted to come off the mountain, they all wanted to finish the event. Another sign of our health & safety gone mad.

Finn