TRAVEL | BULGARIA | SKIING

Skiing in Bansko, Bulgaria

We were eager to see what skiing was like in a European country.

The terrain was pretty good despite the conditions. Photo Credit: Author

“Holy smokes!” I breathlessly announced as I slid to a stop on one of the slopes at Bansko.

I looked at Chris completely perplexed and was very reassured to see that, indeed, he was as exhausted as I was. We both stood there and huffed and puffed for a couple of minutes, looking down the slope and taking in our surroundings.

We had only skied about 20 turns on our first run, but our quads were already screaming, and we were already breathless.

“Are we THAT out of skiing shape, or is this snow just REALLY heavy?” I asked, laughing at the ridiculousness of our situation.

After all, we hadn’t really skied in a couple of seasons. The conditions at our West Coast hill on Vancouver Island, Canada, had been sporadic lately, to say the least. The hill had had no snow, and the conditions unstable, so we never skied, and now we were paying for it.

We weren’t altogether surprised by this turn of events, as our morning had already been quite interesting.

We awoke early to get to our ski rental shop, donned our gear quite quickly, and then crossed the street to take the gondola up to…