Originally Posted by
ill-advised strategy
Yes, the whole thing was a total dream come true.
Thanks to all of you who contributed money and offers to stay with you and skiing and partying and lending me gear...it was an avalanche of love and I appreciate it so much.
One of my favorite parts of the whole thing is/was just being in the presence of iconic guys like Iceman and Splat and Djongo and Flowing Alpy and SFB and BobMc....Older brothers. I have to take better care of myself because I want to be like you guys in 15 years. I want to be like you guys right now, but I want to still be like you moving indefinitely forward.
It was good to check a series of memories....
"Steep" is steeper than I remembered...
The High T is more brutal than I remembered
Wildcat remains hidden in plain view
Everywhere we skied I was finding myself enjoying skiing I wrote off when I lived there. I don't know wtf that was all about....Utah has a hell of a lot of skiing.
My old neighborhood is as skeezy as it ever was, even with 3x the property values. I feel like it may have gained an Ogden.
Speaking of which:
I'm rating Ogden at 1 Ogden....It could be zero Ogdens, it's trying. Maybe it's zero.
I'm also rating Carter Lake Iowa (Omaha) 3 Ogdens.
Green Bay: 0 Ogdens
Solitude -9 Ogdens.
Laramie Wyoming -1 Ogden.
Galena IL -2 Ogdens
It was fun to spend time in the valley with all the Husky Latin Women.
Norseman really stood out in the ripper dept.
If any of the scouts read my emails, we'll never see sirvicsmasher again because he'll be playing for the Canucks next year.
Iceman will need to write his book on The Wheel, because there isn't enough time in the day to explain it in conversation form.
Brock Landers is such a boss I'm just glad he didn't write me up. He handled being dragged to The Best Worst Mexican Restaurant in Salt Lake City like a champion.
All you guys, so many more of you....just being around normal skiers for a few days charges my batteries.
Thank you all so very much.