Project 52 ~ Week 4 {Soothing Repetition}

I didn't take this image with this project in mind.  Really, I just liked the line of it.  The lift snaking its way up the hill to the house at the top.  Spotty skiers heading down on the other side.  It was only afterward, as I was looking it at it on my screen, that I realized how it fit.  The repetition of it.  Those people going up on those chairs and skiing back down again...over and over and over. 

 
I've never really understood this sport.  Maybe it's because it seems like an awful lot of work for just a few minutes of excitement.  Maybe it's because the monotony of doing the same thing every time would bore me out of my skull.  Maybe it's because the very idea of strapping on those fiberglass blades and hurling myself down an ice hill, completely out of control, scares the friggin' crap out of me (something about a story I heard once...a skiing accident, a heavy bathroom door and a knee cap that went sideways....).  But the hundreds of people that I watched climbing on that lift and making that ride back up to the top of the mountain again and again and again seemed to find some enjoyment in the process, some comfort in the repetition.  I've just decided to resign myself to the fact that I'll never quite get it.....but it does make an interesting picture, doesn't it?

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