I took a downhill skate ski clinic yesterday. I'm pretty weenie about going downhill on those skinny sticks.

We went over to the local "beginner" ski hill and practiced there. Basically it was a beginner alpine ski lesson on the skating skis. We started with snowplow and progressed over a few hours to parallel turns.

I don't know if I'll be able to parallel in the groomed trails, but I think this did help a lot with my fear of going downhill.

I'm hoping to go skate skiing today after I do all of my "honey do's". So we'll see what happens.