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[[File:Crud.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Heaven, but with not a blessèd soul, in sight.]] | [[File:Crud.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Heaven, but with not a blessèd soul, in sight.]] | ||
}}The [[JC]] loves skiing. Say what you like about his privileged, stale, pale, male, out-of-touch ass. | }}The [[JC]] loves skiing. Say what you like about his privileged, stale, pale, male, out-of-touch ass. He has mixed feelings about the “off-piste” metaphor. | ||
In skiing it means to ski away from commercial ski-fields — typically, like ''miles'' away from them, and lifts, cafes and so on; ski-touring, with skins, avalanche gear, a rucksack and a day’s worth of food, spending more time walking up than skiing down. This is fabulous, of course, but it’s quite a mission. | In skiing it means to ski away from commercial ski-fields — typically, like ''miles'' away from them, and lifts, cafes and so on; ski-touring, with skins, avalanche gear, a rucksack and a day’s worth of food, spending more time walking up than skiing down. This is fabulous, of course, but it’s quite a mission. | ||