Originally Posted by
Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo
So only one of these is funny but both are ones I won't soon forget.
1. So I am riding up Ajax in the gondola with an instructor and his client, cute middle aged women who is all chatty and nice. As we pass over Bell Ridge we peer down and see them grooming one of the steeper runs off the East side and I make the comment to the instructor that I have never seen them groom the black run before(I only make it to Ajax once a week as I live up in Snowmass) and the instructor says "oh yeah, the do it every so often". So his client peers out and says "Oh boy, even groomed that might be too steep for us today, huh Glen"(or whatever the instructors name is). So he turns to me and with a wink and a nod says "She is from Vail, she isn't used to this steep stuff". Now I don't consider myself a true local yet by any means but I did that day and wore a shit-eating grin for the rest of it.
2. On a BIG day last January I get in next to this kinda cute snowboarder girl and she is just jamming out to her IPOD, not really noticing me. So half-way up she whips out a one-hitter and some bud and asks if I want some. Now keep in mind that because of my anti-social leanings I hadn't found any 420 friends in Aspen since the move up here so I haven't smoked since September. So its one of the biggest days of the year so far, plus this girl is about to get me nicely toasted, and I had gotten a raise that morning at work, six months ahead of when they told me I would when i was hired. The combination of those three things made it easily one of the best ski days of my life thus far.