day 21. skiing. sunday river. 12/31.

today was my first day to do the whole mountain as i guess thursday is going to be jeremy's regular day off. the only thing is that being a vacation week 3 and 6 are open, too, although 11 still isn't open. jon has me working the bottom of the carpet mondays and tuesdays so i'll be tsbr 3 days of the week, getting about 35 hours a week. from the carpet i can easily ride on my lunch breaks and i'll have wednesdays off. sounds pretty good to me. anyway, i had 11 shacks to do so it was time to get busy. i was at the top of 2 at like 8:20 so i didn't give ben his break yet. i went up spruce and got carlo at 8:30. then i took sirius over towards jordan. conditions were great. from jordan i did what i have been doing which was take lollapallooza and 13 back across to jordan but i realized on solo days i can't waste that time because it took 25 minutes. i'll have to just take kansas to northern lights. lollapallooza was great, though. from aurora i went down to the top of the chondola and from there to the top of south ridge. then over to north peak where i had a mishap because adam thought he had an hour break because it was his first time up top. bottom guys get an hour break. top guys (because they are warm) only get a half. i sent ski patrol to find him in the lodge and when he got back i walked over to the top of 3. the guy up there cut me some slack because i was now really behind schedule and let me leave after 15. i had called all my shacks to let them know i was running behind and the guy at the top of white cap told me his heat was out and he needed me asap. i had to hit the top of barker on my way over because when your there you've got to get it done. the conditions were still great and i was enjoying skiing faster because of the sense of urgency. while at the top of barker i got the call that a bottom guy was riding up to get the break at the top of 4 so suddenly i was all cool again. i bombed down the bottom of the white cap chair and then got up to cover the freezing liftie. he went over to the ski patrol shack to warm up. then i headed down obsession, which was still icy but not as bad as yesterday, to the top of 9 my last shack of the day. so, i got it done on time and headed in. with 3 and 6 closed, even with the addition of 11, i am sure i will have no trouble doing everything on thursdays as long as i am efficient. anyway, it was a fun day with a lot of skiing and snow, snow is more snow are on the way.