Did I ever tell you about the time I skied off a bridge?
posted by Jen | 5:08 PM
This is where I'm going to be in less than 24 hours:
Copper Mountain, Colorado
The forecast calls for a chance of a bit of snow, temps a bit cold on Saturday - hi/lo 24/14 and then pretty much perfect Sunday 39/28 and Monday 36/26.
Becca is going to Vermont to ski this weekend. Temps there? Sat 7/-5, Sun 8/-6. Brrrrrrrrr. She's worried she doesn't have enough clothes. Better get hand warmers!
When I was in high school, we went to Yellowstone to cross-country ski one Christmas. It was really cold - like highs in the teens. The things I remember about that trip (in ascending order of vividness) are:
5) Learning how to play backgammon - which I have since forgotten.
4) Hot chocolate in the lodge.
3) How gorgeous Yellowstone is in the wintertime.
2) Being cold.
1) Skiing off the edge of a bridge and dangling from the edge with my feet about 1' above a freezing cold creek.
Luckily, my mom and my friend were able to rescue me from the bridge before I either a) broke one of my skiis, which had the tip on one bank and the end on the other, and would have necessitated walking out in the 4' deep powder, or b) fell INTO the freezing cold creek, which considering how far we were from the end of the trail may very well have ended in a case of frostbite. Fortunately, neither of these things happened, which allows me to remember the incident fondly. Seriously, Yellowstone on cross-country skis - good. Just don't fall in.
I'm hungry. I have a couple hours to go get dinner before I have to come back and work all night. Fun, fun, fun.
Copper Mountain, Colorado
The forecast calls for a chance of a bit of snow, temps a bit cold on Saturday - hi/lo 24/14 and then pretty much perfect Sunday 39/28 and Monday 36/26.
Becca is going to Vermont to ski this weekend. Temps there? Sat 7/-5, Sun 8/-6. Brrrrrrrrr. She's worried she doesn't have enough clothes. Better get hand warmers!
When I was in high school, we went to Yellowstone to cross-country ski one Christmas. It was really cold - like highs in the teens. The things I remember about that trip (in ascending order of vividness) are:
5) Learning how to play backgammon - which I have since forgotten.
4) Hot chocolate in the lodge.
3) How gorgeous Yellowstone is in the wintertime.
2) Being cold.
1) Skiing off the edge of a bridge and dangling from the edge with my feet about 1' above a freezing cold creek.
Luckily, my mom and my friend were able to rescue me from the bridge before I either a) broke one of my skiis, which had the tip on one bank and the end on the other, and would have necessitated walking out in the 4' deep powder, or b) fell INTO the freezing cold creek, which considering how far we were from the end of the trail may very well have ended in a case of frostbite. Fortunately, neither of these things happened, which allows me to remember the incident fondly. Seriously, Yellowstone on cross-country skis - good. Just don't fall in.
I'm hungry. I have a couple hours to go get dinner before I have to come back and work all night. Fun, fun, fun.
1 Comments:
Did I ever tell you about that time I fell off the ski lift? Or how about the time I passed out coming down the mountain and was rescued by the hot ski patrol guy? Or the time I got lost in the woods for four hours and ski patrol was sent to look for me? Or how about that time...
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