Crazy Day of Skiing

Last Sunday, Andy, Troy, and I all went out skiing. I probably should have already talked about this, but lately I been behind in my posts. So here's how it was.

Well, we got up at about 9:00 AM or so, listening to Gregorian chants and other sorts of classical music on the drive up to Bogus. Mom sent us off with our skis and a couple dollars more than three digits for tickets and lunch.

Now let me say something. We do this basically every weekend, and we all have a singular favorite run to go on. It's called Playground. It's basically a terrain park that empties out into a really sweet, somewhat difficult bowl. So we turned left off the main chair lift on our first run and headed to Playground.

Now I like skiing terrain. I like it, but I'm not great or even too good at it. Sure I can go off a few jumps but usually grinding is out of my league. But as Andy went down and grinded off a table and jumped off, I thought I should try it. I did, and the table was easy. It's only a picnic table and you just have to keep your legs straight and jump at the end to make it. But there was another grind down there that was a little bit more difficult.

It wasn't very thick, maybe 1 or two feet wide, but was like twelve to fourteen feet long. I didn't want to lose my momentum, and I jumped on, going straight down with my skis perfectly parallel. But as I made it halfway through, one of my skis slipped and lost it's place on the grind. I also lost my balance, and when I finally flew off in a mess. My left ski came off and I slid on my ass for seven feet before finally slowing down.

And I laughed. It was hilarious. Troy was laughing too. I finally grabbed my ski and continued down, bombing down the bowl. We went down that one again next time, and this time, I hit the grind perfectly. Andy was great and did a few 180s as well, and Troy got to grind too. We eventually went off that same run 15 times. It was the only run we went on, and we perfected our routine again and again until we were going down the mountain like pros, grinding and jumping and everything.