“I moved the seventh gate,” Coach said. “The new combination is hairpins into flush. Can you see it from here?” “Sure,” Dane answered, pulling his goggles down. “I’ll have to trim my line to the left in order to make the eighth one.” “Exactly. Whenever you’re ready,” Coach said, planting his poles in the snow. Then he skied down the side of the course, arriving at the finish line with a wave. Slalom was not Dane’s favorite. It was too fiddly, too technical for his taste. But a couple of times a season, he made it onto the podium in slalom nonetheless. Dane stood there at the top of the course, mapping it out one more time with his eyes. Then he launched himself forward, picking up speed into the first combination. Even though slalom wasn’t as fast and furious as his favorite events, he still enjoyed the swish-swish of his skis on the course and the click-click of the gates as he swatted past them. And there was nothing like a slalom run for emptying your mind of everything but the course and the moment.
What do You think about Coming In From The Cold (2014)?
