1/10/11 Powder Day!

I really didn't want to go out today because it was windy, there was nobody to motivate me (Kim's at her parent's house), and I had work to do.  I figured I better keep practicing that very difficult sport - telemarking -  and get some exercise.  I motivated.  Luckily the lower gondola was open.  It made it a shorter truck trip.

I didn't understand, when I took the first run, what was really going on with the mountain.  I never bothered to check the mountain report.  If I would have I would have seen that we had several inches of new snow fell last night.  What?  Where?  Not in Woodstock.  This was very unusual.  Skiing in powder in tele's right now is very difficult for me.  Oh well, I'm not going back to the truck, I thought, to change boots and skis.  Too much time will be wasted.  I would have to buck up.  My sixth run down was on Outer Limits.  Ohhhh  weeee I said to myself as I went down on my left hip (my right hip is still bruised from the last tele day).  Now I know why they sell those football type pants on the tele sites.  It's for falling over!

There is this new system that you can purchase that allows you to switch your skis from tele to alpine to AT to whatever.  It's called IQ from Blizzard.  It just takes a small screw in the plate.  Who knew that's what I purchased when I started to tele?  I called up the ski shop and asked them what I could do to make my tele's alpine because I'm going to Jackson Hole to ski with a bunch of crazy a...holes and I certainly can't be teleskiing.  My alpine skis are falling apart.  The bindings are literally blowing apart with a missing screw appearing every day.  They told me "you bought the IQ system.  you can just switch them out " (idiot they were secretly saying).  Ok it's all too much for me to keep up with.  Only kids have the time to keep up with that kind of thing.  Sorry!

I got home to garbage tossed all over the screened-in-porch.  There were no tracks on the deck so how did the animal get in?  Then I saw it, tracks in the snow and a hop up through the window which is a screen that isn't in place during the winter.  Ok, I pushed my luck.  I had been getting lazy putting the garbage back out there so I didn't have to walk to the big container.  The poor thing must have cut itself in it's adventurer for food because there was blood everywhere as well as garbage.  The tracks were huge.  I have no idea what kind of animal it was.   The tracks were ten times the size of Lola's (which isn't saying much). Maybe it was a fox or a coyote.  I thought I heard something last night but I just thought it was snow coming off of the roof.

It's supposed to snow tonight.  Until then,

Sarah  GO DUCKS!!!