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SPEEDING IN THE SNOW By Jason PHave you ever been skiing? Well, either have to give me a pole orif you haven’t, then you should try just drag me to the lift. Iit sometime. I like skiing a lot. remember one time, when I wasEvery year before Christmas, I on the ski lift, I took off my glovego to Japan to go skiing. In this to shake the snow out, andstory, I’ll show you why skiing is a before I knew it, the glove fellreally fun and good sport. down from the lift and my dad had to tell the security guard toWHY SKIING IS AWESOME! drive a snowmobile to get my glove for me. It was cool.Skiing is a really fun sportbecause you can ski down Another thing that makes memountains and go really fast. You like skiing a lot is that there is aalso don’t get sweaty or very hot lot of wildlife there. Every timewhile you are skiing because you that I go onto a ski lift, I lookare skiing on soft, cool, and fresh down and see foot prints ofsnow. One bad thing that I don’t wolves, bears, or foxes. It feelslike about skiing is that really good to see thosesometimes, you have to wait a footprints because it feels like Ilong time to get on the ski lift. am really close to an awesomeAlso, because I am a kid, I don’t What’s a Snowmobile?use skiing poles to ski becausethey don’t have my size. When A Snowmobile is a machinethe snow is flat, it is hard for me that can go really fast on snow.to move and go to the ski lift It is like a snow car.because it is flat. My parents

animal or at least they have been when I am skiing, the snow blowshere. The closest to animal I have into my face and if I don’t haveever been was when I was skiing goggles or something to cover mydown a mountain and suddenly, a face, I get snow into my eyes andsquirrel jumped right in front of face and then I can’t see. It willme. I tried to chase it but my skis also feel really cold on your barewere too slow. skin. The second most important thing in skiing is your ski bootsEQUIPMENT and your skis. You think that you can ski without ski boots andIf you want to go skiing, you can’t skis? Well, of course not!just go skiing without anyequipment. Every sport includes WHERE TO GO FOR SKIINGequipment. Otherwise, you can’tplay it. The most important thing If you want to go skiing, there isin skiing is probably your clothing. one place that I recommend youIf you don’t wear enough to go. Go to Hokkaido, Japan.clothing, you will be too cold. Hokkaido is its own island and isSome people wear beanies when not touching Japan but it still isthey are skiing, but I don’t wear part of Japan. It snows so hard there sometimes, that I feel What’s a Beanie? really cold even though I have 3 layers of jackets on. On my first A beanie is a kind of hat you year of skiing, I went to Lake wear that is fluffy in the Tahoe. Lake Tahoe is in the winter. border of Nevada and California. It was a really nice place butthem when I am skiing because there was just one thing about it that was not perfect to me. The

snow was man made and it for them. If you bump into them,wouldn’t pack together that well. you could get seriously injured.The next year, I went toHokkaido, Japan and the snow WHAT DO YOU THINK NOW?was so soft and fresh, it felt like Now, what do you feel abouta cold pillow because my head skiing? Skiing can be tons of funsunk when I put it on the snow. but it could also be quiteSince dangerous to some people. If youthen, we have been going to are a beginner at skiing, then IHokkaido every winter. recommend you take lessons or ski on the slower and not as steepSAFETY hills. Once you get better, then you could start going faster andEven though there many good faster. It will be so much funthings to enjoy about skiing, you that you will never want to leave.still have to watch out for safety. SKIING IS AWESOME!!The first thing and mostimportant thing that you have towatch out for when you are skiingis that you should stay on pathand watch out for other skiers.If you don’t, then you might getlost and bump into other skiersand you don’t want that tohappen. You want to stay safefrom other skiers becausesometimes, they are coming outof nowhere and going really fastso you really have to watch out