Sunday was bittersweet–Copper and WP closing. No real skiing left for eight months….
Anyway, to mourn Jennifer and I went to Copper. She wasn’t sure she wanted to go, but after I passed Pecos I knew I couldn’t go to Closing Day without her. After a trip back home, we got to Copper about 1. We skied our favorites, or at least our favorites that were still open and then headed to the terrain park. I needed to get some video of my back flip in case there were any non believers out there. Anyway, here’s the first of four:
While waiting to drop in on the third, I was reminded of why I don’t spend much time in the terrain park. Most of the people there are morons. Its kinda like college, only they’re more stupid. It was an interesting cross section of the skiing culture. Anyway, here’s the fourth:
That one really hurt. Really hurt. I found out later that I hadn’t cracked my tail bone (or my ribs a few days before) and after a little chiropracting I was fine, but it hurt. It really hurt. I realized later that I need more practice judging how fast to hit it, how hard to throw it and how much boost the kicker is going to give me. If you’re laughing, I’d like to see you learn a back flip in less than 20 hours. In one season . With no prior experience.
After that we had some uneventful tailgating. My little camp grill works awesome, though I couldn’t enjoy it because of dull ache reverberating from my tail bone. Plus, some annoying lady giving her life story the next car over. I did enjoy Quattro racing to catch his tennis ball after eating.
Oh skiing, I’ll miss you. Its not so much a tragedy now as it will be in July when its ridiculously hot and I can’t do anything fast and dangerous because my mountain bike money went to pay taxes. To soften the blow, I’ll try and use up my last ticket at Loveland and Chris’ ticket at A-basin.
