Thursday, Feb. 17, 2005

Today Brandon, Dad & I went first up to Tamarac Lift.
Then we skied over Ursa Access to Ursa Express,
which is a lift, to get to the top of Stratton Mt.
Then we got on the Black Bear Trail.  It's a Blue Square
Trail, which is a little harder trail than a Green Circle.
We got off the Sunbowl Express, which is a short blue
square trail.  And we skied the Lower Down Easter to
the Sunbowl Lodge. While we were there we had some
water, and my foot was sore from skiing so much
lately.  So I rested it a little while.

Then we got on this lift called the Sunrise Express.
That's when Brandon realized that he had dropped
his pole!!!  The guy behind us told Dad where it was.
So then Dad told us to ski BY OURSELVES down the
Lower Down Easter while Dad had to ski BY HIMSELF
down Rowley's Run which was ROPED OFF.  If a trail
is roped off you are not supposed to ski on it because
that means it is TOO DANGEROUS to be skiing on, but
Dad would rather risk his life to save himself from
having to stop skiing to buy another pole!  He had to
ski this really narrow trail called Sun Riser Super Trail
and fell 4 times because fresh snow was on it which
made it hard because no one else had skied there since
the snow fell. (Kind of hard to explain).

So Dad met us at the bottom of the Lower DE'ster at
the Sunbowl Lodge (Sunrise Express Lift) and then
for the 1st time we went on this lift called the
Shooting Star.Then we took Black Bear again and
from there took Upper Middle Brook, which is a
BLACK DIAMOND trail! (Most Difficult!) ..it's a
single black diamond trail.From there Brandon and I
wanted to ski Way Home trail to Old #8 to Run Way,
and then to Craig's Run to Lower Tamarac and then
to the condo.

I didn't fall ONCE!  Brandon did fall once but it wasn't
even during the steepest part of the Black Diamond
Trail-it was during the beginning b4 it got real steep,
but that's because he was going too fast & Dad told
him to slow down. Then he skied the rest of the
way perfect just like I did. 

I am going to take a shower now & then we are going
back out again before the lifts close.  Today is our
last day for skiing b4 we have to go home.  That
stinks!

I wish my friends from school could be here.

UPDATE:  I went skiing again with Brandon & Dad & we skied another black diamond trail again, Kidderbrook Trail:

When we went back out we took Tamarac Lift to Ursa Express lift. Then
we went to Janeway Junction & then to Upper Drifter.  Then we went
Interstate.  Then to Snowball Alley, then to Snowbowl Lift up to the
top.  Then we went black diamond Upper Kidderbrook to Kidderbrook
(also black diamond).  Then we took lower Kidderbrook, which is green.
Then we went down to Sunrise Express lift and then took Shooting Star
lift up to the top. Then we took Black Bear trail blue square, to Sunbowl
Express to try to get to the shooting star lift, but it was closed (we were
two minutes too late) so we took Way Home to Old #8 to Run Away, to
Mark's Run, to Daniel Webster, to home.

Then we came home and got ready to go back to the village to shop & Dad is making pork loin.