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Magic

Posted: Mar 9, 2010
Categories: Blog
Comments: 0
My knee is injured.
I cannot sit still.
I go by snow shoes.
If you have to start moving but cannot press your knee too much after an injury, as it would be if you will go skiing, the snow shoes are a very good solution. Not that it is not tiring but you move in a way that is pretty smooth for the knee, especially when the broken thing is a cross ligament..

My legs are really aching the first time I try, because when you go by snow shoes you must use the side muscles and widen the legs a little bit more than when you go without. Not so use to proceed like that! But after a couple of times it becomes more and more normal to advance as a duck and you can even get this strange swinging movement of these very funny birds.

The good thing is that it is possible to reach my clients and guests and friends who are still skiing in Monterosa. The lunch restaurants on the slopes and the cosiest refuges are reachable by feet. BUT DO NOT ENTER THE SLOPES, if you do not want the police to stop you and give you a very unpleasant bill to pay. It is forbidden to be on the pists without skis or snowboards. OK!

Most of the people you meet on your way, with the same instruments on their feet, are aged teenagers. Strange that you really must change your habits along with the physical age of your body, even if your mind still wants the same flexibility and strenght as ever. I feel not so different in my desires then when I was 16…

But gliding silently in the woods where the only rumor is the one of the metallic/plastic material under your feet is always a magic feeling. Doesn’t matter how you transport yourself when the magic appears. 
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