Night skiing

The general understanding of cross country skiing by the american public is about 0 (yes that is a zero). Skiing at night is a concept that one should not even try to start explaining. But here where grooming is often a little so, so - especially compared to the sweet home country, explorer-skiing can be a great way to spend some evening/night hours. Few things is as fun as heading out into "new" land (at least where you haven't been before) as the sun goes down and every bone in your body tells you to turn. Team OW theory is that the brain is trying to trick you and wants you to go home and lay in bed and eat cookies because it is "safer" and biologically better. Instead you turn on your headlamp and see where the trail takes you. saturday had some great night explorer skiing along the ridge between Mohonk and Minnewaska, and we actually got some first tracks down a trail which always is a highlight.

As you can see either Whitney has gotten a lot faster or we set the shutter speed on the camera to a lot slower... but in any case - night skiing is frikking fun!

Say hello to Johnny!

There has been some competitions on our blogg.

First of all - Our Jeep is named Johnny (which was the name we where leaning towards before the blogg post) but we also added the nickname Jebus - just so we can scream 'Save me Jebus!!!!" when things go wrong.

About the Christmas Cookies we only had 3 votes and all on different cookies. Therefore Micke who casted his vote first becomes the "judge" and the winner in the christmas cookie competition is "Redneck with bad teeth in yellow wife-beater and green lederhosen"!! - Hurreay,!!!!... but they have all been eaten by the cookie-monster now!

Santa Claus is coming... part 2 - "Miss Christmas Cookie"

Det ar sjukt juligt har i New York. - eller sa juligt det kan bli utan sno. Igar var vi och firade lucia pa samma satt som forra aret och det var lika grymmt att hora "glans over sjo och strand" av nagon som faktiskt kan sjunga. Idag var det jul-kaks bakande och sedan dekorerande. Efter bra response pa "name that Jeep" sa finns det nu 12 st finalister i "Miss Jul-kaka USA" att rosta pa.

1. Jul-Gran som ser verklighetstrogen ut

2. MC Echer Jul-spiral

3. Prickig klocka

4. Redneck med daliga tander, gul "wifebeater" och grona lederhosen

5. Kak-gubbe som blivit zombie och har massa blod runt munnen

6. Glad kak-gubbe

7. Julgran som inte ar gron

8. Bikini-kak-brud

9. Modern sno-gubber

10. omodern snogubbe

11. Normal julgran

12. tva-fargad julgran

Tag chansen att rosta fram amerikas vackraste jul-kaka!!!

Santa Claus is coming....

Team OW will celebrate Christmas here in New York. To get into Christmas spirit... The Diva, Grumpy Bear and Lil-Sis all got into (Johnny, Jebus, Jessabel ... those are the 3 finalists for the Jeep) and went to pick up a christmas tree. While Grumpy only occasionally woke up to either 1) complain about people doing things "sub-optimal" 2) bring out his credit card to pay for this "christmas spirit", after a long day of work the result is displayed above... A fine looking fir. If Santa don't come and put presents under this tree I am seriously going to question his standards.

Name that Jeep... (new family member)

For a long time we have know that Sally was getting old. Many years of chain smoking made her lungs sound like like ... well a chainsmoker when she made it up hills. So last weekend we had to put her to sleep. We all remember Sally as an old lady that gave us much pleasure in life and always did her best - sometimes with a little complaining to take us where we needed to go.

Now here is the new Family member. The Jeep - we think we have a name for her/him but are up for any suggestions. So help us name that Jeep.....

Team Davis 4th and 7th on Ladder 5k Run

The Davis sisters did a pretty strong performance on the 2010 Ladder 5 run on Staten Island. Whitney finshed 4th and Amanda on 7th place of the girls. There was age-groups and, all other different categories but it is a little against my principal to report those (like I actually won if only counting foreigners born on Tuesday in even weeks). The full results are here. http://www.nyara.org/nyara_races/2010/mn_race_ladder5.php#results
If the times looks like absolutly aweful for a 5k course it is because this is not your normal 5k course. Whitney usually breaks 20 min on a normal 5k but this one goes over a beach, on a twisty singletrack etc. so it is very hard to compare the time to anything else.

Here is the dynamic duo ready for fight.

TR: Lake Placid Epic Day

Lake Placid ar ju lite av varat favvo-stalle har pa den amerikanska ost-kusten. I alla fall nar det galler ute-liv. 2 ar i rad har vi kunnat aka upp dit for att fira Independence Day... God bless!

Denna gang hade vi planerat ett special-triathlon som vi kallade Lake Placid Epic Day.. och bestod av paddling, Hike/run, och klipp-hoppning.

Har ser vi borjan av paddlingen pa den sodra delen av Lake Placid. I horizonten ser man Whiteface Mountain (5:e hogsta toppen i New York 1,483 meter - ingen 8000meter kippa men har anda sjysst fallhojd.) - varat "mal" eller snarare vand-punkt. Vi startade i Lake Placid och paddlade over sjon till foten av Whiteface mountain ), sedan laste vi kayaken till ett trad och hikade upp till toppen och tillbaka

Pa bilden ovan ar vi antligen pa toppen och lake Placid som vi paddlade over kan synas i bakgrunden. Tyvarr blockar mitt stora huvud stora delar av sjon som vi paddlade over. Under paddlingen tillbaka sa stannade vi vid pulpit rock och hoppade ned i Lake Placid. eller jag gjorde det i alla fall - Whitney avstod for "vattnet verkade laskigt".

Hur som helst blev det en helt fantastisk dag och slut-tiden stannade pa 7h. kanske inte raket-fart men i alla fall en bra start pa rundan Lake Placid - Whiteface t.o.r.