Archive for April 2008

What is not flat?

Apr 28th, 2008 | By | Category: International

“The light has gone flat”, said the instructor.

Was that what he said?

One woman took off her wrap-around goggles and slipped a different pair from an inside jacket pocket – going from black to orange.

It was beyond me.

A companion explained that the flat light meant it was much harder to spot bumps and dips and, as a consequence, easier to misjudge a slope and fall.

“A good thing we don’t ski in Ireland”, I thought, “the flat light would have all of us in A & E”.…