day 34. skiing, sunday river. 1/14.

tsbr from jordan to white cap. did spruce first and then took sirius, aludra, cylone and town fair over to jordan. first time of the year cyclone and town fair had been open for me. we have a new job task which is writing trail reports for every trail we ski. its fun. makes me feel important. after jordan, down kansas and northern lights to aurora. cranmore was fun yesterday, but snow conditions (snowmaking and grooming) are VASTLY superior at sunday river. no joke. i felt like i was skiing very well. after aurora peak i headed down lights out to downdraft to the top of the chondola. then down escapade to the top of south ridge. somewhere around here brandon called me to tell me i didn't have to cover breaks at 4 and 9 today so that took the time pressure off. across broadway and up barker. down ecstacy where i ran into a fence at cascades which was closed for racing so i headed down monday mourning which was the first scratchy slope i had come across of the day. down roadrunner to 11. down assumption (which was awesome again) to the white cap chair. took salvation out of there but again ran into a fence at heat's off because of the race so i headed back down obsession which was probably the best run of the day. up the tempest chair and across cascades where the race had ended. over easy to find coach kav waiting for the team at the top of the gates. at the bottom of barker i found kasmira headed out. i called kelly to punch me out and headed up with the team. its always fun to ski with them. we blasted down ecstacy and cascades was now open and excellent because the sides were unskied. we took that loop three times and i really felt good riding out my turns and not braking and skidding. of course, repeating runs (which i rarely get to do) helps because you learn the snow. great day. big day tomorrow with the night race at mt. abrams.