Mammoth skiing

I skied yesterday and today. We woke up this morning to find snow falling from the sky. This scared everyone but Justin and I, and since Justin had bought a 2 day pass, he wanted to make sure he used it. We skied about 3 hours today, through clouds and snow and wind. But it was nice, a bit powdery. Damp though, so the snow was heavy and hard to turn in. But not as bad as I’ve seen other times.

I got separated from Justin on the first run because I stopped to help a chick stranded on the slopes. She was falling out of her bindings every turn it seemed. So I offered to help, tightened up her bindings a bit with my screwdriver. Then I noticed her bindings were set for different size boots. Once I made sure they were set for the same size, she was doing fine. Only her third time skiing it seems, so it’s forgivable on her part, but not on the company that rented her skis at all.

We had an uneventful drive back, a little rain here and there. We got into Justin’s parent’s place at about 7:30. They were out, but his sister was in. I showed her the pics of Justin sitting in the snow. She laughed. She asked if he could keep up with Ed and I. I said yes, and Justin related a story I had not heard. Saturday, as we were going up the lift, Ed asked Justin if he was “proficient”. He said he thought so. After the first run, where Ed beat everyone down the hill, Justin asked what Ed thought. Justin said he said “proficient enough” or something like that. Sarah just laughed, saying “that’s such a typical DeWitt word, proficient, instead of ‘how good are you?'” Which, now that I think about it, it is. I’ve found since I’ve been at Carpenter and RSI, I haven’t used “DeWitt” words as often as before, but certain things still strike me as the right way to say them. I have to wonder where Sarah gets knowing DeWitt words, unless it’s just repeated stories from her dad and brother. Cause she never to my knowledge hung out with Ed or I at all in high school.

But… afterall this I’m sore. My thighs were killing me on moguls. Oh, I was doing ok, but I need to be doing better, particularly if I’m going to go up again at Veteran’s Day and Thanksgiving weekends, let alone at Christmas time. But what good work outs are there for bending and twisting of the thighs?