day 46. skiing. sunday river. 1/28.

i wanted to ski because i wanted to be aggressive without worrying about being over sore the next day, plus i assumed conditons would still be somewhat variable from the rain. i was on the mountain by 10 and headed straight to jordan. i bombed lollapallooza a couple of times and then took kansas back. i took barker and after ecstacy and cascades took snowbound to lower obsession. then i took the white cap chair and came all the way down obsession. they had snow guns blowing on the left side and it was very nice. i had tunes and was skiing well. i took tempest back to barker area and skied over there until kasmira's ski team arrived for the race. i met them in the lodge and took a warm-up run with her and shannon. then they gathered at the starting gate and checked out the course as i skied down the left side. then we rode back up and the lined up to race. i skied to the bottom to watch, it was another duel slalom with a fair amount of racers, including the dreaded sugarloaf girls team. kasmira skied well getting an identical time as the week before but because of the stacked sugarloaf team as well as some good racers on the other teams she finished quite a bit lower in the rankings. the sugarloaf girls won easily but telstar girls hung on to finish second and the telstar boys won. it turned out to be "the pizza race" as there was pizza for all the racers after. it was a good time and i think kasmira is getting a lot more comfortable with regular racing, which she never really got last year because of the cancellations.