OK, I’m a little late getting to post about these days. I’d sorta forgotten and then one of the AmeriCorps said she got a Copper-WP pass, which made me gush a little and decide I should read about the infamous Day 18. While heading over to do that, I realized I’d forgotten to post day 31 and 32 events. Here we go from what I can remember of late April.
Day 31: Chris got two tickets to A-Basin with the purchase of his Nomad Crimsons at Sniagrab that he wanted to use in May. So off we went to A-Basin. We got there around 10 and skiing was pretty uneventful to start with. We did ski Montezuma Bowl, which didn’t quite live up to the hype but was still fun. There was decent snow at the top and I had to jump several dirt patches at the bottom. Stupid global warming.
The biggest event of the day occurred standing (well) below the runout at the lift out of Zuma. Chris and I were casually chatting when I looked up to see an older guy getting off the chair with a crazy look in his eye. I thought for sure he was going to plow Chris, but instead he just skiied over Chris’ skis and then gave me a death-grip bear hug. From there, he refused to let go–I mean the dude thought he would die if he let go of my leg. Eventually, the his ski buddy and a liftie got him untangled and he let go.
After that I did a few more runs, though I can only really remember skiing some trees near Main Street off Pali and then dropping the cornice at Pali and burning it up thru the bumps. All was right with the world til I got to the bottom and remembered it was May.
Day 32: I had a day off work to burn and two tickets to Loveland left. So, Jason and I went up to ski, discuss business and tailgate. All three were accomplished with astonishing success. It was really windy, but we found some decent trees and steep sections. We also found some incredibly sticky snow on the south faces and a really expensive place to buy beer in Georgetown.
Afterwards, we had a few beers, cigars and brats in the parking lot. This was really the end of the season…
