Snow Fire
Won Over By Reality
By Tim Bayer
BRIGHTON New York—(Weekly Hubris)—11/10/2014—I found this week’s video visually amazing since it looks as though the snow is on fire here. Self-illuminating skiers lighting the darkness around them while carving through powder is . . . just brilliant (pun intended).
Before my own knees mutineed, I was an avid skier, and once blasted through waist-deep powder more than a mile high up in the Rockies: the most amazing experience (the video clip above is the author skiing at Grand Targhee in 1997). I can only imagine how much fun these light-suited skiers had, zipping through alabaster snow in the black of night.
In case you’re in need of some chuckles before watching this week’s video, here’s a link to my previous post from Key & Peele, titled “The Auction Block.”
Even if you’ve never been on skis, the video below is simply beautiful in its composition. So, fire it up!
(If you, yourselves, come across an entertaining link or video, I’d be interested in seeing it, and sharing it with my readers at Weekly Hubris. Please contact me at: Email: [email protected].)
Tim Bayer
Tim Bayer, Webmaster, and Assistant Editor of Weekly Hubris, was born and brought up in Webster, New York. He attended St. Bonaventure University, earning a BS in Computer Science, and then worked in the hi-tech world. In 2002 he turned his creative energies to product development and video production with the release of his first independently produced products. When the demand for web site design and freelance writing increased, he once again switched skill sets . . . to writing and web work. An avid or, to be more accurate, rabid, disc golfer, he may often be found chasing plastic while in pursuit of the perfect round on a disc golf course, or designing and developing disc golf products for Demogrid.com. He says he tries to find the humor hidden in everyday experiences, because, “life is too important to be taken seriously.” (Author photo by Tim Bayer. Author Head Shot Augment: René Laanen.)
3 Comments
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring
Dear Tim: thank you for this wonderful video! I, too, “blew my knees out” skiing, and then training for a marathon. The pain brought me to Yoga in 1982 and, when I practice religiously, strengthening the muscles above and below the knees, I have no pain. May I try to convert you? :-) Much love, and many thanks, Oh Webmaster, for all you do! Elizabeth
Tim Bayer
Even when I was 8 years old, my knees never liked (actually despised) the lotus position. The bending does not work for me. What does work is low impact, knee friendly stuff, in-line skating, ice skating, bicycling and my most recent addiction, disc golf. Low-impact, “hiking” around the local parks while playing Disc Golf keeps me active and fit. Oh, and it is tremendously fun for me.
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring
Lotus is for very, very few adult Westerners. I had in mind more . . . all asana done on the floor, with no weight/strain on the knees. Yoga’s come a long way over the past 30 years. :-) You can even do Yoga in water, outside, in the snow…..