What is Cross Country Skiing?
It is a quiet brook bubbling around boulders piled high with marshmallows of snow, water gurgling under ice of intricate design. It is ripping turns through untracked powder; it is friends laughing as they glide through gently falling snow; finding mountains of steep and deep beyond the lift-lines; racing for 35 miles along with eight thousand other skiers; a group of kids flying off a homemade jump; it is going fast, pushing your body to its limit or sliding quietly along at an effort of your own choosing - from breathing hard to hardly breathing. From Olympic dreams to fitness dreams, as stress relief or as an escape from the everyday, cross-country skiing is almost anything you want it to be.