First first chair of the year

Sorry for not updating this in a couple of days.  Check back later today for a video that does not feature country music.  On Tuesday I actually did get first chair, which felt good, until I found out that the top of the mountain didn't open until 9 or 10.  Since I had my bigger powder skis, I decided to straight-line a couple blue and black runs.  Unfortunately, since I rushed out of my condo to get first chair, I forgot my phone, so I was not able to see my top speed.  After a couple runs of that, I took the T-Bar up, then waited for 30 minutes to get 3 chair of the season on the Imperial Chair.

The video that I will post later has one of the straight-lining runs, me riding the T-Bar, then finally making it up to Whale's Tail.  I am still working out the angle of the camera, so I apologize for that.  Hopefully the skiing you see on Whale's Tail will be the worst you see all year.  That is the first time I skied a double black (it was definitely an easier double black run) with control of only one ski.  My ankle really started to hurt, so I went right back to the condo after that run.  I am going to take at least 4 days off, since visitors will be coming soon. I want to make sure I can ski the entire day with them.

Since I didn't ski yesterday, I decided to head to ABasin where Dean Cummings was there to show his movie, The Steeper Life, and talk about avalanche protocols.  It was really cool.  There were only about 15-20 of us there.  Most were either from the ABasin ski patrol or editors/writers for Ski magazine.  He is a really quite humble person, but amazingly talented.  If you haven't seen the movie, you should try to check it out.  It is only about 50 minutes, so it doesn't take too long to watch.

Make sure you check back in a couple of hours to see the new video.