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March 15, 2006
Tired Now...
So there ends a pretty hectic few days off.
On Sunday I got up the hill fairly early and cruised around on my own as SK was at work, she joined me on her split and we met up with a large group of fellow 'Summiters' who were out to celebrate a co-workers last day in Whistler. We skied/rode around in a horde of about 10 generally terrorising whatever got in our path.
Lunch that day were meatball, cheese and tomato sauce baguettes otherwise known as 'Big Balls', SK was given the task to ask the rather timid looking guy behind the till for "2 Big Balls please". Yes, we're childish but I don't care :oP
That evening we all went to the Longhorn (a local bar) to say our goodbyes and drink lots of beer :o) It wasn't a crazy evening but we made the most of the various drinks offers.
Monday - after a suitable lie-in - was spent on Blackcombs' "7th Heaven". The runs were all freshly groomed so we spent a few hours doing (very) high speed loops on the lift. Starting at the top in the shadow of the Peak and slightly exposed to the wind we would charge down the hill to the shelter and warm sunshine of the pistes below, on each loops we'd do bigger and bigger jumps off the various rollers on the runs - Great fun :)
Yesterday we had our mandatory dose of Fresh Tracks grease, I ate even more this time - I really should get a photo of my breakfast next time. Despite there being 7cm of fresh snow the night before there were barely 30 other people doing fresh tracks! As a result we got 2 fantastic runs down Dave Murray Downhill, we were only the 3rd people down it and as a result probably broke some form of speed records on the lightly snow covered corduroy.
At 9:30am we met with 2 of my old friends from Ski School - Brendan and Andrew - and set off to investigate the hill with them. We had a good time with them doing some interesting stuff such as one run down a double black - including mandatory cornice drop and an off-limits run following a lift line (enticingly called 'insanity').
I did my first cliff drop - small (by comparison) at about 6' - but it was still fun. I've got some video of Brendan and Andrew dropping 15-20 foot faces/cornices, which I'll try and post later - kinda crazy.
Today we again went up the hill but only managed a couple of runs before being beaten by the fairly torrid conditions - blizzard conditions at the top to fog at the bottom. Ugh.
I had more physio this afternoon, in short, it hurt - lots, but I *think* I'm at -2* so am just getting hyper extension back, only 3 more degrees to go - always nice :o)
Also my shoulder is nearly recovered after my crash on "Jimmys Joker" last week, if you didn't know I caught a heel edge while flying down a black run and did a 1.5 times back flip before landing on my shoulder, you now do :o)
I'm working for the next few days until Sunday so won't really be able to enjoy the fresh snow which is forecast - but I'll sure I'll find some decent powder hidden in the trees come Sunday.
Anyway, time for bed.
Posted by edwardnorthridge at March 15, 2006 09:53 PM