im still goin' crazy up here!!!!!!!!!!
nice site!!!!!!
Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2004
I woke up early and got ready to ski at 8am. Dad said we could get out earlier than everybody else who has to drive to ski here because we have a lift that is close to the door of the condo we are staying in. He said our lift opens at 8-the one at the bottom of the mountain opens at 8:30.
Yesterday the weather wasn't that great but today it was perfect. It snowed last night & there was fresh snow on the mountain. The snow was different today-it was more sticky, which means it was harder to go straight because snow would build up on the blade and make me fall. I had to go slower because I had to zig zag more so the snow wouldn't build up. Yesterday was really windy and cold, and there was a snowstorm. I fell going on Yodler's Express (a trail on the mountain). But I was ok. We went down YE without problems and did it three times. We went down Mark's Run two times and we had fun. And then my dad said, "Are we ready to go to the top of the mountain?" And my cousin
Brandon & I said "yes." We had to ski down a couple of trails to get to Ursula's Express, which was a special lift to take you up to the top of the mountain & it was bigger & it was faster. When me & my dad & Brandon hopped on, and some other guy, we went up to the very top of the mountain. It was very foggy when we started to go up, you could hardly see where you had to get off. When we finally got to the end of the thing we all hopped off and I was kind of afraid to hop off, and there were people behind us. So when we had to get off it was slowing down alot so it was supposed to be easier to get off but it was still a little hard to get off. So when it was finally time to get off, I was holding my poles in my left hand, and holding on to the seat with my right hand, and I pushed off and the thing
made me fall. I hit < he ground and immediately rolled three times as fast as I could (like a stuntman in a movie), to safety. And when I saw the people who were behind me, they said, "Good move!" I was smiling because it was funny.
We had to look at our map to see where we were going to ski. And the one that we wanted to go on was closed for some reason. So we had to go on Interstate. It's just like a little hill trail, but to get to it, we had climb up this little hill, but it was still hard because the wind was so outrageous it was pulling people down the hill on their skis. So if you didn't have your poles, and dig them into the ground hard, you'd be gliding backward. I was right behind Brandon going up toward Interstate. We had to ski through Mike's Way to Upper West Meadow to get to Interstate. Then we took Interstate to get to Overpass. After Overpass we went to a place to eat called Aunt Chilada's. I had yogurt &
rootbeer, Brandon had chicken soup, brownie & french fries, and Dad had a hot dog, french fries & peanuts.
After we ate, Brandon wanted to go down Tink's Link, which is a more difficult course. But then we decided to go to lower Tamarac. We skied down Mark's Run to Get Stumped. It was easy.