What is not flat?
Apr 28th, 2008 | By Ian Poulton | 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”.…