Today was day four of skiing at Whistler, and I survived. A few observations in no particular order.
- My feet are cold. Tonight we watched a Big Air slope style competition while standing on the sidelines instead of in the plaza on a big screen. Standing on the sidelines means standing in the snow.
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View of the plaza from the sidelines where people stand and their feet don't get as cold, but their view isn't as awesome. |
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A skier gets pulled up to the jump via snowmobile. |
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The landing for the Big Air competition |
- Weather can change on a dime on a big mountain.
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View from a run yesterday |
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View from the top of the run two runs later |
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View from the gondola as I downloaded yesterday |
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View without raindrops |
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Today, two inches of powder accumulated...during lunch. |
- I wish Jack had taken more vacation when I wasn't working. Now that I am working and am not free to travel at will, his interest in traveling with the family has gone up. I am not complaining, just wish he would have thouht of this before I returned to the 9-to-5. My company has a reasonably generous vacation plan, so I am not complaining about that. I just wished he used more of his vacation time when I was around. As much as I like my job, breaks are necessary.
- If I lost some weight, I'd have less mass, and then I'd ski slower without having to work at skiing slower. I am the only person in the world who thinks skiing slower is better than skiing all out in a straight line.
- I feel like an old lady when I ski sometimes. Skiing is a time for weird thoughts. I realized that with this next birthday, I will be the same as my grandma when she became a grandmother. Oy. Fucking. Vey. I could ask my dad to confirm, but I think I am right. Actually, I don't really want to know. And my mother was not an old grandma. She was a regular age grandma for the time.
- Just when I feel like a grandma and think I am too old for this shit, I go in the lodge and see a bunch of seventy year old men covered in snow who have just gotten off some gnarly run. (Note: I will not be seventy on my next birthday, in case that might be confusing.) How do I know they are doing gnarly runs if they are the in lodge with me? I don't see them on the green runs I am on. There are women that age out there skiing, but far fewer. Why? Are women that age too smart to ski?
- The Boy is sending it. His sports medicine physician night not be too happy, but whatev. He's happy.
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