Saturday, February 4, 2012

More Skiing!

If you don’t like skiing, then you’re probably hating all these posts…but let’s be honest, no one could possibly hate skiing. This video has an element of humor to it too (everyone likes watching someone fall) – so everyone should be super happy.

On my ski trip in Dec ‘11 – Jan ‘12, we set out to try a new area: The South Wall. One of our runs down Blackrock Gully was less than perfect though. A ski school instructor decided the perfect spot to tell his class to remove their skis and lay in the snow (why would this ever be necessary?) was at the bottom of this gully. Unfortunately for us, it was tough to see this was going on below until we were super close. And because we didn’t want to harm any children, each one of us veered to the left to avoid the crowd. The snow was heavy and cruddy to the left though, which resulted in at least 6 falls (I believe there were more). One by one we made our way down the gully and then tumbled after edges and tips were caught.

My crash can’t really be blamed on this though. I just happened to catch an edge while in the gully and tumbled down most of the run. Enjoy my crash: