Balboa Park was the peculiar venue for a big ski competition today!
Who needs snow when the House of Finland holds its annual lawn program at the International Cottages and provides skis? Grass works fine!
The afternoon Hiihtokilpailu (which is Finnish for ski competition) saw several teams (four athletes each, sharing two long skis) racing cross-country style (without ski poles). I watched the crazy spectacle.
One team couldn’t get out of the starting gate, two had calamitous, spontaneous collapses, and the fourth had major trouble turning around. One machine-like team named the Engineers would go on to win the big Final. (Fortunately, all contestants were awarded cookies.)
These photos of the silly “skiing” contest might make you chuckle.
I probably would’ve fallen over, too!
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