Ski Season Wrap up

Ski season ended in Watertown with the trip to Alta.  Locally, Charlie, Eloise and I logged at least 20 ski days apiece, with several tremendous powder nights at Dry Hill with my friend Marshall.

A few key highlights from the season:

February break at Whiteface.  The kids had a single day of lessons and then two full days with me on Whiteface.  They skied the entire mountain, including several trips to the top.



I got myself in trouble with them on the last day, last run.  We grabbed the last gondola ride and took a wrong turn, ending on McKenzie, a steep black.  The surface had been out of the sun for several hours and was boiler plate.  We took long traverses at pretty extreme angles, at one point Charlie's uphill knee was near his chin and he was shaking to hold an edge.

We got down, with a few rests, a few tears and a few angry looks from my two snow troopers.  Once down, we got into the sun again and the snow was soft.  We finished that day with a run through the terrain park.

In the terrain park, we stayed near the big gap jumps to watch the teenagers huck huge air.  They were incredible.  The neat thing about the gap jumps is how high you are between the gaps but how low to the landing you are when you clear the gap.  It's a cool invention.