Day 10: IIV therapy
No, that's not "IV" therapy, it's "IIV": ice, ibuprofen and vodka.
Well, not ice. Really a bag of frozen peas, tied in place with a t-shirt -- I finally found a use for that Kitchens Direct t-shirt that Dale gave me a few years ago. :wink: (That's Dale's company and he was looking for some free advertising :roll: .) Somewhere in the trees along the ropeline left of Catherine's Area I hit a submerged tree in the woods that ripped off my right ski, but not before I badly strained what I believe is my MCL. :roll: That right ski, once dislodged, ran for a couple of hundred yards down the hill. Had Salida not seen it I'd still be up there digging in the wrong spot.
That, however, was my fourth Catherine's lap today. Sure enough, it opened as expected. We made a bunch of warm up runs cruising Sugarloaf and a couple of laps on Backside while we waited for Cecret and Supreme to open at 11. At 10:15 Bobby Danger noticed that the Baldy hike was open, so he headed up there. The rest of us couldn't resist the lure of skiing an untracked Catherine's that hasn't opened yet this year. It was positively divine, with a few inches of creamy powder atop a supportable and spongy base. Rack up another powder day for us.
Ironically, the sign for the Baldy hike was adamant that only Main Chute was open, and that skiing anything else would result in a Baldy closure. Sure enough, some bonehead dropped Little Chute and the gate closed. :roll:
So now all of Alta is open, save for Devil's Castle and Supreme Bowl. It looked like they were ready to open the latter, as everything had been ski cut and signed. Alas, no...so Catherine's it was, where Skidog, Tele Jon, Marc_C and later Salida and I all enjoyed multiple laps before my knee strain.
Driving down the canyon I took a double take as I breezed down the Racetrack:
Some mariachi band was filming a video on the side of the canyon road. Of course, I had to stop! You never know what you'll see in that canyon! :lol: Try that in the East.
So, here I sit. I imagine that I'll still be sitting here tomorrow, too. :x
The video, including the knee tweak, will be ready in about 45 minutes.
No, that's not "IV" therapy, it's "IIV": ice, ibuprofen and vodka.
Well, not ice. Really a bag of frozen peas, tied in place with a t-shirt -- I finally found a use for that Kitchens Direct t-shirt that Dale gave me a few years ago. :wink: (That's Dale's company and he was looking for some free advertising :roll: .) Somewhere in the trees along the ropeline left of Catherine's Area I hit a submerged tree in the woods that ripped off my right ski, but not before I badly strained what I believe is my MCL. :roll: That right ski, once dislodged, ran for a couple of hundred yards down the hill. Had Salida not seen it I'd still be up there digging in the wrong spot.
That, however, was my fourth Catherine's lap today. Sure enough, it opened as expected. We made a bunch of warm up runs cruising Sugarloaf and a couple of laps on Backside while we waited for Cecret and Supreme to open at 11. At 10:15 Bobby Danger noticed that the Baldy hike was open, so he headed up there. The rest of us couldn't resist the lure of skiing an untracked Catherine's that hasn't opened yet this year. It was positively divine, with a few inches of creamy powder atop a supportable and spongy base. Rack up another powder day for us.
Ironically, the sign for the Baldy hike was adamant that only Main Chute was open, and that skiing anything else would result in a Baldy closure. Sure enough, some bonehead dropped Little Chute and the gate closed. :roll:
So now all of Alta is open, save for Devil's Castle and Supreme Bowl. It looked like they were ready to open the latter, as everything had been ski cut and signed. Alas, no...so Catherine's it was, where Skidog, Tele Jon, Marc_C and later Salida and I all enjoyed multiple laps before my knee strain.
Driving down the canyon I took a double take as I breezed down the Racetrack:
Some mariachi band was filming a video on the side of the canyon road. Of course, I had to stop! You never know what you'll see in that canyon! :lol: Try that in the East.
So, here I sit. I imagine that I'll still be sitting here tomorrow, too. :x
The video, including the knee tweak, will be ready in about 45 minutes.
