the thursday after

so the thursday after wednesday night fiasco
we had an amazing powder day
it was truely mindblowingly incredible
fresh snow
blue skys
my best bud
oh yeh i had to get my ski pass un 'red flagged' i had forgotten to take some rental gear back oops silly me
but after it was alll hunky dorey
and yeh me and dear mr butler shredded all morning
and fair play to the boy he rode the back side of the boomerang on snow blades
yep double black diamond powder days
on snow blades
we needed to stop at about 11.30 for a little break as both of our legs were burning and we both enjoyed a well earned ham sandwhich which i must say was rather tasty so big thanks to young mr b for providing the catering expertise
we did laps with various people and i think i did some of the best riding ive ever done.
i hit this sweet turn just it was right underneath the lift line
and due to the amount of snow weve had it has a section above my line roped off
this is there to stop people getting nailed in the head by others riding the lift up
and guess what
a skiier nearly took my head off
but it was ok i shouted sorry man and he was all dont worry buddy yeeooooooowww nice line
i got all excited then
and made mr b take a pic but as he has forgotten his cable for his phone we cannot let the public see yet
so the pic will be in a post to follow
by mid afternoon the weather had turned a bit and wasnt so nice so we finished around 3 ish and went and had a coffee in the cafe
it was nice various people came and went
although chelsea was there all the time as she had buggered her knee up again ( the poor lass literally hurts herself every other day on the hill )
but we spent the day exploring the glades and getting stuck
i really am getting more and more like me father
it'll be ok we'll go this way
oh bugger thats a bit tricky ahh well ill bash on through next thing i know that little drop is a drop into a tree well with a big ol wind lip out of it and i get half way up and bugger im stuck
oi buts dont follow me down here
he just stops in time
that happened quite a few times
the backside of the boom was going off again but i found some trees tighter than expected so it was a case of turn into one which smacked my front edge
this kind of pushed me backwards
smash
that was the back edge of the board into a tree
im glad i wear my helmet as those tree branches have been getting mighty close
it now has a plaster on it mr bump stylee.
Friday i had to work
luckily i had been over looked on the schedule so ended up at the boomerang
me and fabian the crazy french man ( he is a fantastic skier and a helicopter pilot ) went to the lift first thing and did set up
we were sceptical about opening as the winds were gusting around 50 mph at the top and it was snowing rather hard
we did our setup and just waited for a descision about 3 hours later the word came through we wernt opening. we had to tell around 20 or so members of the public with probably 5 being iriate and f'ing and blinding at us
we just calmly explained that we were sorry its the mountains choice not ours and it didnt matter that youve been on more rickety lifts in worse winds and snow but this is mount washington and this is what we do in the conditions . ( one guy was so iriate that when we bumped into him later he continued to rant at us , not cool )
we were instructed to head back to the lift hut so we did
just in a more round about way
seeing as the 8 lifties that were working that day just happened to all take the same route back and the route included 8 black clad boarders ( oh well 7 and a skiier ) ripping repeatedly through the glades all weaving in and out of each other in fresh sweet fast champagne powder.
so after the first run we ditched our bags on the hawk and procceeded to whoop and yeoooow our way through the glades again ( repeat this 5 times or so ) and youve got us all bursting out

( well minus caitlin and ed seeing as caitlin had followed a line with 3 rollers on it and she jumped big on the first, on the second things were starting to get loose, then the third just threw her as she pretty much landed from the second one onto the top of the third , this was truely hilarious for the rest of us , ed had ended up in a similar situation)

onto sunset with a snowschool instructor there and me and al being all thats how liftys rolllll
then we ripped down for another ride

the general idea was that we would all ( al myself fab caitlin ed connie shauna and aussie ) head to aussies for pre beer pong tournement beer pong , you know to get our eye in ,
so we jumped on the 1 15 bus down and thank god we did as after we got down they closed the road up the mountain as it was snowing so hard
so all the other busses were delayed till about 9 o clock

so this runied our plan so myself and butler chilled at home having a few beers with tyler and then the girls came home and we had a couple more and put on the new jackass 3d movie and pretty much chilled all evening watching it and drinking more beers
was such a nice evening
house full of laughter

saturday was the afterdark invitational big air comp
and it was amazing
snowing and the riders were going huge
one of the new lifties timmy was part of it and he pulled a 1080 back flip off thisss hugggggeee jump
we went pretty wild
the night ended up with butler and cheeko (who has somehow become our 3rd amigo ) tackling me into a tree well and us wrestling in there till i ended up using the 2 of them to push myself up and out of it ( to avoid snowy hands )
then sunday was my birthday so thankyou for all the cards and greetings
i had a good day at work a couple of complaints about the new guys but i talked to them and they understand what they had done wrong so hopefully we should all be hunky dorey now
and i had a really good ride with butler
we only had time for one run but it was so nice and cruisey
we hit some trees
some powder a groomed run and yeh was nice
i was doing little 180s off the sides and stuff and laughing lots and lots with the boy
then in the evening we just went a had a few beers at avolanche with team france a few lifties and it was nice and relaxed evening kinda perfect
so im sat here on monday morning
skyping a couple of people
so chow
x

snowballll

snowball
snowball snowball snowball
thats pretty much been cheeko butler and myselfs past hour
weve just had an epic 7 block snowball fight
including a mini mission into a hostel where we may or may not have attacked certain amigos of ours with certain snowballs
the fact that this was cheekos hostel was beside the point he still wanted to mission it home
this included mutliple skirmishes against each other
at one point we called a truce
that cheeko decided to break with a shot at butler
i think the best moment was i was being chased by the two of them and then i skirted round a building ( avoiding the fresh snow ) and snuck up on them
well i thaught i had then a certain hobbit cheeko then snuck up on me being sneeky and pounded me while i attempted to nail buts in the face
my best shot must have been when i absolutely nailed cheeko in the face from about 30 metres back
also this was over into a parking lot while i was on the street so an added point for difficulty haha
so to cheekos reading this over my shoulder and agrees whole heartedly while eating my cookies and drinking my vodka
but its ok as its dan's sprite as a mixer
and in his defence we did consume his rum and coke while him and myself reigned supreme at table football at the cona
we beat team butler and flaveian ( one of the new french lifties ) last night 2 games to 1 with the final game being an epic comeback from 7-3 down to a mighty 10-7 win
and again tonight we destroyed them
butler isnt particularly happy as he's pretty competitive and he has been comprehensively beat in the past 2 one on one games
anywho
were off to watch the end of bill and teds bogus adventures
we're wild stallions !