Ski videos

It was Leo's last day of the first session of Eldora Trek Ski School. He passed with flying colors into their green level. Instructor said he progressed the most of the class, which is probably because he started as the worst skier in the class and had to work hard to keep up with the other kids. They did their first blue runs today and Leo loved going fast. Instructor said we'd better watch that love of speed. Instructor really loved hanging out with Leo, said he was very creative and fun which is what the second video is about.

First video is this funny thing that happened all the way down the mountain this morning. They play follow-the-leader, single file and make S-turns all the way down the mountain. Invariably, one kid will fall, and all the kids behind him will run right into him and fall down too. I know Leo has faster ski reflexes than that - I've yelled at him to look out for crossing skiers and had him narrowly turn to avoid someone. But somehow, in this follow-the-leader game, if the leader falls, the rest of the kids just fall too! They did this same thing all the way down the mountain (lineup moved around so it wasn't the same kids always falling). Leo is in blue at the end of this line of 5 kids.

In the next video, Leo and I are skiing by ourselves and Leo's showing me his favorite things on the mountain. We went into Fun Gully. Here he's showing me how he can ski around rocks (although he scrapes right over one to get to them).