day 24. skiing. snowboarding. sunday river. 1/3/10.

i was back on the left side of the mountain again. i got a little confused and took the chondola thinking i was going the other way and then forgot i had to do spruce and went straight to barker. the conditions were amazing in places and sheer ice in others as the wind had blown it all around. i headed back across the lazy river to spruce. then down american express, which was excellent, back to the locke mountain chair although my legs were fried as i hit a lot of bumps near the bottom. upper sunday punch was sheer ice. snowbound was closed so i headed straight to the top of 9. cascades was very bumped up and exhausting but roadrunner down to 11 was a blast. then over to the white cap chair where i was told obsession was closed so white heat was the only way down. knowing the conditon of my legs and the situation with the ice and the bumps there was no way i was skiing white heat. we're certainly not supposed to ski double black diamonds anyway. we're not even supposed to ski obsession which is a single black diamond but i do that all the time. i tried to beg ski patrol to let me jump the rope (they were setting up a race course on it) and he said no. so, i downloaded on the lift. a little humbling but there is no way i am going to take any chances and get hurt and screw my wonderful winter up. i had to had back to 9 to get back to south ridge and took the race course insted of cascades and it was awesome. one thing about this job is that you kind of don't get the chance to say "hey that trail was great" and hit it again. i went in and punched out and met up with kasmira who was snowboarding witrh friends. i very relaxingly skied south ridge for the rest of the day. i ski real well on easy trails with perfect conditions. as the season goes on, with all the snow time i am getting i'll get better. kasmira, of course, was smoking her board.