Tag: kandersteg
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The Swiss Family Carlson Hurl Themselves Down a Mountain – Part 2
Last time we threw ourselves down a mountain on sleds. The next day we strapped two sticks to our feet and threw ourselves down a different part of the mountain. We did so well at not dying during the sledding that I felt like perhaps I could also not die while downhill skiing. Our oldest,…
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The Swiss Family Carlson Hurl Themselves Down a Mountain – Part 1
Skiing. It’s the one thing that everyone says we should do. Followed by “It’s the Alps, for God’s sake!” So, even though we come from the flat lands of the Midwest and have gone downhill skiing a combined total of 3 times in our entire lives, Mark and I did it. We went skiing. IN…
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A Robert Frost Moment
I was walking back from the ski gondola tonight and found this scene. And I immediately though about Robert Frost’s poem Stopping by a Woods on a Snowy Evening. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening BY ROBERT FROST Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though;…
Mindy Carlson 