XC Skiing

Cross-country skiing

This week's letter in ABC Wednesday has once again reached difficult X letter.
Thankfully X has become more and more popular part of anything that used to have cross or Christ as part of the name. Cross country skiing, which is nowadays often called XC skiing is good example about it.
Cross country skiing used to be most common form of sports in Finland for quite long time. In those days, you were guaranteed to have at least couple months with enough snow on a ground for cross country skiing on frozen sea, lakes, fields, etc. Nowadays you are lucky if you have more than week or two with enough snow for skiing. This phenomenon along with doping scandals, better living standards, better equipment on ski resorts, etc. have made downhill skiing to be more and more popular. I would bet that all in all these trends are making cross country skiers (people who are doing cross country skiing at least once or twice each year) average age to grow in rapid speed.

Related photographs:
Kuusamo in wintertime
Levi in wintertime