Yesterday was a beautiful day!
I spent Sunday Morning walking around the house in my ski boots, accommodating my new boots to my old feet, and getting my "ski legs" back under me.
Monday morning I got up at a reasonable hour. Not an ungodly hour, as I would have done to ski Taos, nor even an uncomfortable hour as I would have done to ski Santa Fe. No, I got up about the same time I would if I were going to work.
Only I wasn't!
I was going skiing on the 100% open Sandia Peak Ski Area!
Only a week before we'd all heard Sandia was going to have to delay their opening due to a lack of snow and temperatures that hindered snow-making operations. Well, next year I suggest making that little announcement the week before Thanksgiving instead of waiting until Christmas!
No sooner did the announcement sink in to skiers than we had a freakishly wonderfully long rainstorm (sorry to my Mother and Step-father and anyone else whose house suffered miserably due to the cold snap and excessive moisture, but, hey, on balance.... well I'd better leave it alone).
So, With barely time to drink a full "To Go" cup of great coffee from my own coffee maker I was ensconced on the mountain.
First thing I did, of course, was get my newly issued "Peak Rewards" Card. With the "Peak Rewards" Card I am back in the game I was last in when just 21 years old; the "dollar-per-run" game! With my "Peak Rewards" card my ticket for a day was only $25!
Since there are, apparently, so few of us in the know, there were no lines to speak of, so my buddy Mike and I were left to find the best snow we could (Robb's Run that day) and crank out laps! Okay, maybe we didn't get 25 runs in (we were having such a good time we didn't count!) but we got awful close. Factoring in normal inflation I think we got a better deal on a cost-per-run basis that we've gotten in many years!
There wasn't a single run that wasn't fun as Mike and I schooled everyone else on the mountain. Oh yeah, that was us you may have seen blasting fearlessly down the icy front of "Suicide," catching air off the popper at the top of "Inhibition" and effortlessly whizzing past all comers with a combination of grace and nonchalance that was clearly at odds with the speed we carried - all the way from the top to the bottom.
We are blessed, in Albuquerque, with a once-every-three-(or so)-years phenomenon; Sandia is the best skiing in the state right now!
Ski ya there!
I spent Sunday Morning walking around the house in my ski boots, accommodating my new boots to my old feet, and getting my "ski legs" back under me.
Monday morning I got up at a reasonable hour. Not an ungodly hour, as I would have done to ski Taos, nor even an uncomfortable hour as I would have done to ski Santa Fe. No, I got up about the same time I would if I were going to work.
Only I wasn't!
I was going skiing on the 100% open Sandia Peak Ski Area!
Only a week before we'd all heard Sandia was going to have to delay their opening due to a lack of snow and temperatures that hindered snow-making operations. Well, next year I suggest making that little announcement the week before Thanksgiving instead of waiting until Christmas!
No sooner did the announcement sink in to skiers than we had a freakishly wonderfully long rainstorm (sorry to my Mother and Step-father and anyone else whose house suffered miserably due to the cold snap and excessive moisture, but, hey, on balance.... well I'd better leave it alone).
So, With barely time to drink a full "To Go" cup of great coffee from my own coffee maker I was ensconced on the mountain.
First thing I did, of course, was get my newly issued "Peak Rewards" Card. With the "Peak Rewards" Card I am back in the game I was last in when just 21 years old; the "dollar-per-run" game! With my "Peak Rewards" card my ticket for a day was only $25!
Since there are, apparently, so few of us in the know, there were no lines to speak of, so my buddy Mike and I were left to find the best snow we could (Robb's Run that day) and crank out laps! Okay, maybe we didn't get 25 runs in (we were having such a good time we didn't count!) but we got awful close. Factoring in normal inflation I think we got a better deal on a cost-per-run basis that we've gotten in many years!
There wasn't a single run that wasn't fun as Mike and I schooled everyone else on the mountain. Oh yeah, that was us you may have seen blasting fearlessly down the icy front of "Suicide," catching air off the popper at the top of "Inhibition" and effortlessly whizzing past all comers with a combination of grace and nonchalance that was clearly at odds with the speed we carried - all the way from the top to the bottom.
We are blessed, in Albuquerque, with a once-every-three-(or so)-years phenomenon; Sandia is the best skiing in the state right now!
Ski ya there!
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