Skian Cian

Last Saturday we finally got ourselves off to Rutsutsu to enjoy some of that fluffy powder snow that part of Hokkaido is covered in. It was a beautiful day with barely a whisper of wind and a warming sun beaming down on us all day.
Cian (and Sanae) had spent the previous month attending ski lessons at the local ski field in Muroran which was kind of good in that in the space of a week he jumped from level 4 to level 2. The lessons were also kind of bad in that they were also, well, lessons and so inherently boring.
So today the boy got to be who he wanted to be on the slopes - we got to see Cian free styling it, a sort of modern Miles Davis of the powder.
There are two videos. You can see the first one
here
This is a kind of a promotional film for the splendor and beauty of skiing amidst volcanoes and, eh, trees. He likes to ski between them, around them, and on occasion, into them.
The second video is
here
This is, well, frankly, thrilling. It is akin to the prelude at the start of a James Bond movie where 007, after stealing another incredibly important something or other, flees from the baddies' alpine redoubt down some gravity defying slopes towards what seems certain death. Or at least for Daddy who had to film whilst going down the gravity defying slopes without any ski poles.