1/19/11 Another Epic Day

We didn't ski yesterday even though the snow was coming down in buckets.  Why you may ask?  You want to know?   If I say : "ok we need to take the day off because my body is falling apart" then Kim really holds me to it.  Even if it's snowing buckets we don't get to go skiing.  "I want to go.  It's really snowing hard!"  "Suit yourself" the witch says.  "I won't go but suit yourself.  I'm sure your body will be fine."  Witch, witch, witch!

So we get up early today because it's been snowing (or whatever?) all night long.  I think that people looked on their cars and saw a layer of ice and didn't hit the slopes.  Their loss and my gain!  To tell you the truth we were skeptical too but we were meeting my new tele buddy (Terry) for Vermonter day.  Cheap tickets.  Not that I care because we have season passes but I like that Terry will get a $39 ticket.   I decided to start out on my alpines because maybe there is a lot of snow.  After all they said there were inches and inches of new snow.  We went down Needles Eye.  The packed snow is great but boring on alpines.  I try the bumps to the right.  Woow eeeey...  I say once again, what the hell is on the top of these bumps. A layer of crust four inches thick.  It wasn't completely bad but I think I'll pass.  I should have started out with tele's.  I'm skiing with a teleskier!  I take that very long run all the way back to the truck on the lower gondola.  Switch out my bindings and show up like a hippie at Woodstock.  "I'm ready". ( I'm always wishing I was on the skis I don't have.  It's the Story of my life. )

Ok, so after all that effort of switching skis I wish that I'm back on my alpines to ski the trees because now I find out that the trees don't have the crust just lots and lots of friggen powder@!  Oh well, I'm going for it.  I'm taking these tele's into the tree's.  "It's up to you if you want to go down the trees.  I'm just saying that your legs are tired and now you are adding trees in to the difficulty."  Ok Debbie Downer stop worring.  I fell before I even got thru the ropes.  "Are you sure you want to go down this?"  NO PROBLEM.  GET GOING!  We ended the day with mucho runs.  My legs (knees) really hurt.  I did way more runs on my tele's then I'm used to.   We tried to quit but ended up at Bear because we missed the turn.  I couldn't pass up Outer Limits even though we were very tired.  I should have.  Oh well it can't all be perfect.

Four snowballs.  Why?  It was just a crazy day all around.  We found some great snow and the company was outstanding.

Lola is going in for surgery tomorrow.  Poor liddle ting.

Until then,
Sarah