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TODAY - FEB. 17, 2010

The day started out past the first run time even though I told Kim about 100 times last night that I wanted to get out for the first run.  Apparently, she cares very little about a nice 6 inches of new powder.  I made that quite clear in the truck as we were driving.  I made it especially clear as I saw people running for the gondola as we drove into the parking lot.  I considered my options as I ran up the stairs: 1) go into the lodge bathroom and risk losing more powder runs, 2) skip the lodge and take a run just slowing down enough to go in the woods 3) don't bother stopping and piss on myself.  I won't tell you which option I chose but let me tell you it was a bit windy so option 2 and 3 kind of went together.  

Although there was lots of very light powder, as usual, it was covering up that nice sheet of ice that Amy loves.   Just to make my point I will skip right to the last run.  I decided, even though we had already done 14 very tough runs and burned over 1000 calories (ask Kim it's true!), that we should go down Outer Limits and maybe jump the rope and get a bit of that very fine Devil Fiddle run in.  Kim said go ahead while she ditched me for some other nice end of the day skiing on Bear Mountain.  FYI for Killington novices DON'T GO DOWN BEAR MOUNTAIN AT THE END OF THE DAY.   I noticed as I was going up the chair that there wasn't one skier on the run that I had decided to go down.  Wow, I said to myself, what idiots to miss out on this snow.   Hummm, I also said to myself as I slid down the side of an ice bump the size of a small elephant, why don't I just cut over to Devils and see if that's better.  There wasn't really a good place to jump the rope so I skied down a while and saw an opening in the trees.  I smashed through some branches and hit an 8 inch round rusty water pipe and slid down that side ways (still upright mind you) like I was in Troy's snowboard park.  That is until I decided to fall over backwards and ride the rusty pipe with my bare side because my coat had come up.  Thank god only about A THOUSAND people on the chairlift saw me.  

There were some very fine runs in between including Double Dipper and the woods next to it.  Very fast skiing.  I will have to give () () () snowballs today.  I had a great day of skiing in mostly powder conditions.  It loses one snowball just because I'm angry that some jerk put a water pipe right on the other side of that damn rope!

Sarah 

See you on the mountain!