
Skiing between the trees
My son, the rocket scientist, mulling over a lesson in simple physics. When you grow bored skiing the groomed slopes of a ski area and decide to try the more challenging task of skiing through the dense forest, you sometimes spend a lot of your time picking tree bark out of your teeth. I once heard a ski instructor explain that skiing the trees is hard until you learn that you cannot look at the trees. I’m paraphrasing, but he basically said that if you want to ski between th