Cross Country Skiing

The girls first attempt at cross country skiing. The beauty of X-country skiing is that you don't have to go down hills or ride up lifts to enjoy it, you just shuffle forward at your own pace.

Sue is keen to ski off into the forest at Otway.

We slither away from the Otway ski lodge at a brisk pace!

Luckily, two friends from Sue's work are ski instructors so they take us out for lessons on what to do and what not to do.

It's very easy really - you just slide your foot forward and bring the other foot forward. The skis have either short lengths of skin with fine hairs sloping back down the ski or the skis have a scaled surface which stops the skis sliding backwards.

There are miles of tracks all over the place which are labelled for their degree of difficulty. Where's the map to lead us out of here?