Following tradition, Cole and I went up to Snowbird today. I went over to his house a little before 8 and we had breakfast before heading up to the hill. We were able to get a bunch of runs in before we needed to head back home around 2. It really is fun every now and again to go to the resort and catch a number of turns without having to hike for them. Don't get me wrong, I prefer backcountry skiing to resort skiing any day of the week, but it was nice to do this today and perhaps once or twice more this year.
Cole is becoming quite the skier. He is even showing more interest than ever before in learning to telemark so I need to be sure to jump on this soon so he doesn't fizzle out. We had some good runs in Gad Valley and off the Cirque. Mineral Basin totally sucked (as was expected). Cole did take a little fall our last run down the Cirque and he lost a ski. He then had the hardest time getting his skis back on. What a sucker. My skis don't e
ven release. Sure, this may pose a problem when it comes to the overall safety of my knees and leg bones when I do fall; but hey, I never have to worry about the hassle of putting my skis back on when they pop off in soft snow! We had a good day together. It was fun to go out just the two of us. We enjoyed each others company and we both improved as skiers.
Is it really worth it to do all that climbing up just to go down stuff like that? Maybe. When does that tri season of yours start again?
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