Skiing|Paloheinä’s hasty skiers became a topic of conversation last week.
“The Horny Ones” skiers became a topic of conversation last week, when the manager of a sports center in Helsinki Pasi Uljas got tired of the impatient street people.
“You horny skiers! Keep an eye out so that Pertti and Liisaa don’t get hurt in the jaw when you meet the ski machine at work, we won’t be able to avoid it,” wrote Uljas on Facebook in the Paloheinä ski slopes group.
Uljas also comments on the update For Helsingin Sanomat on Thursday, saying that the hustle and bustle has continued the same way for a couple of years.
A frequent skier in Paloheina, Helsinki Mauno Haapala73, gives his support to Uljas, even though he thinks his choice of words is “rather rude”.
He recently published a message of support for Uljas on Facebook, in which he urged everyone to “believe in Pas!”
“I completely understand the feelings of the machine driver. However, it was an attempt to get the slope open so that you can ski. Unintelligible skiers had gone too early to disturb the work,” says Haapala.
He says that he lives in Viiki, Helsinki, and that he visited Paloheinä to see what the situation was like.
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It was such a plowed field that the skiers even had trouble staying upright.
“I don’t understand what a rush it is to go to an unfinished piste. You don’t get any skiing pleasure when the piste surface was not even close to being in such a condition that you would have been able to ski properly at least in some way.”
Mauno Haapala marvels at hasty skiers.
Haapala thinks that those who were walking between the track machines had probably come there without knowing that the track was marked as closed on the website of the city of Helsinki.
“When they had gone to the place, they probably thought that they had to try anyway.”
“It was such a plowed field that the skiers even had trouble staying upright. You couldn’t get the taste of proper skiing there. It was just a kind of walking.”
Haapala says that he skis 1,000–2,000 kilometers a year. There are several skiing trips behind this season as well.
He says that he very rarely comes across road rage or otherwise reprehensible behavior. From individual cases, walkers emerge on the track.
“The tracks are not really made for walking.”
Haapala says that he effectively warns walkers to move to the route intended for walking. The reaction is often the same.
“There’s no answer from there. It’s just such silence. But I won’t go on about it. I’ll say it once politely, and if there’s no answer, I won’t start yelling any more.”
This is related to Haapala’s advice to everyone who is heading to the slopes this winter (when it starts).
“You have to go to the track with a happy mind and in such a way that the surface is not tense. Considering others, I think that’s an important thing. It doesn’t cost anything and gives everyone a happy mood.”
Despite the warm and rainy weather, skiing was possible in the capital region on Monday in Espoo’s Oitta, Vantaa’s Hakunila and Helsinki’s Paloheinä.