After two decades of skiing, Lucy Fry is considering switching allegiance to a winter sport which provides a sterm test of her core stability
I would like to start the year with an apology. It goes out to the snowboarding community, which, as a skier through and through, I have shunned for almost two decades.
“It’s so try-hard, so ostentatiously anti-authoritarian,” I used to say, as another boarder raced past me down the mountain, carving a snakelike track into the snow with a single edge and the slightest lean.
“Just a tray beneath your feet? It’s not nearly as complex as skiing.” … More