Downhill skiing at Agnäs

Today we decided to test how much we remembered of skiing downhill (we did it once while we were in Wisconsin, but that ski area was quite flat, not many mountains in that state), the weather seemed promissing. Our goal for today was Agnäsbacken ski area. Not extremely large area that either, but at least it is just about one hour away from Umeå. One thing with the roads up here is that they are quite straight, and the speed limits are a little bit higher than they would be for a similar road in southern Sweden. That is of course due to the much less traffic.
Since we don't own any skis, we rented the whole package when we arrived. We tried to be there in time before they opened, and we managed quite well (later on some of the other guests had trouble finding parking spots).

Our first hill down started as a light slope and then turned into Björnbranten, a more steep slope. Not so good start for Maria the Beginner, she had a hard time to enjoy the landscape view. You could really feel that it was quite some time since last time on a pair of downhill skis.
More of the day was spent in JonErsvängen, a middle-easy slope.







Unfortunately the slopes were facing north, but at least we got some sun shine at the top of the mountain. Being in February the sun actually warmed you a little bit.





We stayed until the lift stopped for the day. Quite in time for the sunset this time of the year.