What a great day! 5 inches of the fresh stuff overnight made for an awesome day of riding. Took my class to the Olympic Chair to enjoy some fresh tracks. After lunch, headed to the Marmot Trees and other great powdery runs around Green Acres. By 3pm the kids were exhausted. But not tired enough where they couldn't take a few turns at jumping the small jump we made outside the CLC. Pictured is Darrell about to land a 180! What did we learn today? Linton is a 9 year Korean boy from Vancouver. At lunch, Linton was explaining to us that in Canada, he is 9 years old but in Korea he is 11 years old. We all thought he was crazy!!!! ..... until we ran into his parents and asked for the explanation that little Linton could not provide. To quote from Wikipedia: Several East Asian cultures, such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, share a traditional way of counting a person's age. Newborns start at one year old, and each passing of a New Year, rather than the birthday, adds one year to the person's age; this results in people being between 1–2 years older in Asian reckoning than in the Western version. Linton was born in December so when he "popped out", he was considered to be 1 year old. Then in January (the new year) he was considered to be 2 years old even though he was only one month old.
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