So today was kinda like a few this week-I get up, start getting my gear ready and then I check the snow report. 3cms and only -8 is good enough for me to head up. So I head into town, grab a juice and drop off some pics and hit the ski hill road. There are literally less then 12 cars in the parking lot when I get there and its like 10:30-this is so sweet! Drop off my bag, grab a $20 lift ticket (mon, tues and Wed for the next month is $20 adult and $10 kids-so sick) and hit the T-bar for a quick burner through the park. Probably rode my first rail on that run-that stuff is for kids-haha!
Back at the top I decide, heck I'm going far left today to check out the steeps and trees over there. Hmm once again my lack of local knowledge should have been going beep beep beep as the tracks became less and less and I went in with the few "adventurous" ones that were over here. At this point I know what I can ride and what I can't and I'm in some good steep trees. But ahead you can see that the hill "fades/drops" away-ah damn! I knew I was in the mix here. Unstrap, walk in a little further to scope the situation and sure enough, way past the "easy out" and not far enough to the next non-cliff band. So on that note, I put my head down and began the march back up and out of this one-one of the first times I've had to turn around, but this was not happening with out more knowledge of the lines that I couldn't even see today. Oh well I need the exercise.
Once back at Holy Smoke I was strapping in after a quick, "un pack my boots of snow" sessoin. As my current luck would have it I broke a binding strap and then an "unbreakable" Burton boot lace-holy crap! A little luck and a whole lot of patience later I was strapped in and got back to a chair. To the truck I headed, adjusted my binders and grabbed my old boots (no fancy ass lace systems) and headed back up for a few more runs, but was smart enough to go home early.
Today was a day that I think the mountain wanted me to stay home,
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Published by Brule: 8:13 PM
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