Skiing in Sunshine on Lake Ice

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I just had to swap two hours of daytime work for two hours of evening free time and get out on Lake Lundsjön with my skis. It's amazing, seeing the cliffs where we sim and sun bathe in the summers, but from an otherwise unreachable vantage point two meters above the water's surface!

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Oh these pictures make me miss winter! Seattle is in the middle of monsoon season. Do you mean you have 2m of accumulated snow on the lake? That is fantastic.

No, I mean that I am 6'3" and that when I wear thick-soled ski boots my eyes end up about 2 m above the lake's surface when I stand on it. (-;