February 02, 2006
Guess Who' Back....
Sorry for the lack of updates but as you'll find out I've been a little busy.
Firstly, I'm back snowboarding! I spent an hour in the hot tub stretching and finally got my knee 'straight' so decided that having missed 32 days allready the time was right to get back on a board.
Work have also changed/cut down my hours so as I can now get on the hill for 5 days a week, I felt I should get out an enjoy it.
I spent 2 hours yesterday before another massage appointment and 3 hours today before another physio appintment; on the hill reaquainting myself with all things cold and powdery. The hill(s) are in amazing condition due to the huge amounts of snow.
Yesterday it was announced January broke records, 469cm (185") of snowfall in 1 month! the most in any single month since records began - and I missed it all.. typical :o)
Anyway, back now and enjoying every minute :o)
This morning myself and SK went to Dusty's Backside - ignore the name for now - We both had the fried breakfasts and were on the hill fully charged on grease and carbohydrates by 9am. We did a few runs on the fresh powder taking some jumps/drops and weaving in and out of the trees.
At 10am we met up with Ben and various other work mates, 2 hours of powders runs down bowls and chutes followed before I had to go. Ben continued and went to do 'Flute Bowl' - a (near) backcountry bowl famous for its huge powder fields. He returned extolling its virtues and explaining how to gain entry you have to drop a 10ft cornice about the bowl - sufice to say Ben stacked it, landing on his ass/face/stomach (he's not sure) :o)
As I mentioned earlier I had more massage yesterday - again done eu naturelle ;o) - Its a heck of alot less painfull the second time round! Post session I was again as close to 0* as I thought possible.
Today post snowboarding I went to the hot-tub for an hour of soaking and stretching before physio. I arrived at physio to find out my lovely knee was infact at 1* !! Somewhat of an improvement!!
Karina started to play around with doing her normal twists and turns and mapipulations when all of a sudden there was an enormous *crack* from my knee joint.
Mild panic ensued in my head but I was told my tiba was re-aligning itself and considering there was no-longer any pain when I moved my leg I was rather happy :o)
We took some pictures of the various antics, SK has them on her site and I'll add them to mine shortly.
Tomorrow I think blackcomb is calling so more crusing, more jumps and possibly back into the terrain park...
Will keep you posted with the drivel :o)
Posted by edwardnorthridge at February 2, 2006 03:39 PM