First Snowboarding Trip of the Season
The time between Christmas and New Year is typically a very busy time up in the ski resorts around Lake Tahoe, and typically a time I avoid.
However, a combination of Wella being free to go snowboarding and some decent recent snow just begged for a trip. I drove up to Wella's on the Friday night (she's only 2 hours or so from Kirkwood) and then we headed up for the day on Saturday morning.
The snow turned out to be in great condition - lots of powder off the main runs to go play in. The weather turned out to be good too, after some initial overcast, the sun started shining through. The final piece of the puzzle would be how would our relative skill levels on snowboards be. If one of us was way better than the other, we'd either not hang out together or one of us would not have that much fun.
Thankfully, it worked out great. We're right around the same skill level as each other, so we both got to hang out all day and do the kind of runs we like - the only fly in the ointment was that Wella was developing a cold, so she slowed down a bit earlier than she normally would, but with all that powder around, I was wearing out pretty quickly too, so even her cold was a minor inconvenience to the enjoyment of the day.
The photo above shows Wella in the middle of all the powder we were playing in (we were not doing the groomed runs much 'cos the powder was so much fun).
Later, Wella, even in her under the weather state, kicked my ass at Scrabble.
However, a combination of Wella being free to go snowboarding and some decent recent snow just begged for a trip. I drove up to Wella's on the Friday night (she's only 2 hours or so from Kirkwood) and then we headed up for the day on Saturday morning.
The snow turned out to be in great condition - lots of powder off the main runs to go play in. The weather turned out to be good too, after some initial overcast, the sun started shining through. The final piece of the puzzle would be how would our relative skill levels on snowboards be. If one of us was way better than the other, we'd either not hang out together or one of us would not have that much fun.
Thankfully, it worked out great. We're right around the same skill level as each other, so we both got to hang out all day and do the kind of runs we like - the only fly in the ointment was that Wella was developing a cold, so she slowed down a bit earlier than she normally would, but with all that powder around, I was wearing out pretty quickly too, so even her cold was a minor inconvenience to the enjoyment of the day.
The photo above shows Wella in the middle of all the powder we were playing in (we were not doing the groomed runs much 'cos the powder was so much fun).
Later, Wella, even in her under the weather state, kicked my ass at Scrabble.
posted by Tim H at 5:02 PM
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