Let it Snow!

Finally! Snow in the forecast for the next several days!

Looking forward to patrolling and snowboarding this weekend.

With surgery only 17 days away my days of playing in the snow are numbered.

Sunny Snow

Patrolling yesterday felt GOOD. Blue skies, sunshine and temps in the mid 40s - perfection.

I saw a lot of the blue sky yesterday, from a prone position on the snow. My excitement, combined with rusty skills, turned me into an unwilling acrobat several times.

This morning, muscles I forgot I had are SCREAMING with every move I make.

The familiarity of the hill, seeing old friends and meeting new, it felt GOOD to be home again.

Carving Snow

Up early and ready to take on the snow for the first time this season. Woooot! When I went to bed last night I was feeling neutral about getting up at the crack of o'-dark-hundred, loading up my patrol gear and hitting the road for the hill. Right now however, I am GEEEEEEEKED!

There is fresh, crisp snow to carve today. I can hear the sound of my snowboard dropping onto the first run, the cool air on my face, and laughing myself silly as I float down the hill.

Time to go!

Waiting

For almost ten years I have looked forward to and counted on only two things: snow and ski patrol. 

Unlike anything else in my current life like my husband, family, friends, waking up, sunrise or sunset, these were THE two things in my life that I KNEW for certain would happen. They were the two things I lived and breathed for year 'round.

Currently I do not belong to any ski patrol - so I don't give a shit about the snow.

So, the two things I had loved most in my currently fucked up life, the two things I knew would happen when winter rolled around, are gone.

That's okay though because I can continue to do what I do best - sleep my life away.