1.   Cross-country skiers are a strange lot.

2.   Keen skiers are happy to forego a summer holiday to go skiing.

3.   Skiers should be particularly choosy about the insurance policy they buy.

4.   But one of the biggest challenges for the skiers is the cross country, racing up and down over and across mountains.

5.   Alpine skiers might also be best equipped.

6.   And though some skiers are appreciably better in classical technique than the more modern freestyle, or skating, technique, Dahlie is no specialist.

7.   As for how many black skiers there are in the United States, no one knows.

8.   A skier should be able to stand on one leg for two minutes without wobbling.

9.   A truly accomplished skier was a spectacle on the slopes.

10.   Both sighted and blind skiers are welcome to ski for pledges, and to ski for any length of time.