Skiing for Survival

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Over the centuries skiing has become the fashionable things to do. Of course, it also means spending quite a bit of money if you want to go skiing resorts. There are also different ways a family can enjoy skiing without the expense. In Riga, Latvia a park was turned into a ski paradise in winter and families could enjoy skiing on little slopes or cross-country skiing through the park. But these are modern times. Way back in the Paleolithic Era which goes back some 40,000 years skiing was a way of survival. A cave painting that has survived from the era’s final Ice Age shows that people used sticks attached to the feet so that they could travel over frozen ground. This was necessary because to survive they had to go hunting for food and there had to be a way to get over the ice and snow. So the next time you’re snowed in or think you are, take a look around with what you could make up some skis so you could get out and about. A lot of time has gone by since then and who knows maybe you can invent something entirely new to get around the snow in if you are not a skier and you don’t have skis.