Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jan 19, 2014, at 8:44 PM, lrzeitlin at aol.com wrote: > On the LUG there are bikers, hikers, occasional sailors, leaf peepers, > gardeners, foodies, and bird watchers. But are they any other winter > sports enthusiasts? My wife and I are in the middle of our annual XC ski > vacation in Vermont. Unfortunately there is very little snow. These are > the worst midwinter ski conditions that I have ever experienced. The well > publicized Arctic vortex provided freezing temperatures in all the US > states in North America but the snow fell in narrow belts in the midwest > and the Atlantic coast. I have been a XC country skier since an army > assignment in in 1955 at the polar bear capital of the world, Ft. > Churchill, Canada. I have more pairs of skis than I have Leica lenses. > Here is a selfie taken with a P&S camera while skiing today. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Skiing+selfie.jpg.html > Are there any other winter sports enthusiasts, Alpine skiers, ski jumpers, > ice skaters, sledders, or snowball fighters on the LUG?? Good to see you ;) And I remember those days fondly. Did a good deal of x-country skiing before the knees got to torn up. The last time I went out - maybe a decade ago what was once pure pleasure felt like torture. Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist