Winter arrives in Utah this week

Well Tele Jon, Bob D, Becky, and myself went up anyway....pretty much skinned from behind the workers quarters. Mostly stuck to the access road for the skin up, only deviating for a few shortcut climbs. Made it up top pretty handily, didnt check time, but i'd expect not much more than 2 hours to Collins top.

The first few pitches were actually VERY good...real skiing. The snowfall the week before gave a "supportable" base to the VERY LIGHT new snow. As we got closer back towards Watson Shelter things got tricky. the new snow was super light so it didnt support anything...you pretty much went right to rock. you had to stay on your toes, unfortunately i didnt not follow that advice the entire way down as I had a pretty nasty crash, then a little later on the access road back down I had another that kinda rung my bell...The first crash led to a ripped jacket elbow (brand new jacket mind you) and, wait for it........8 stitches in my elbow...at the time i didnt check to see the elbow damage we just continued down...probably took another 25 min to reach car, once the jacket came off and the shirt was pulled up we all knew it was time for a trip to the emergency room. Funny that I didnt care about the injury until I saw it..but man did I NOT FEEL good after seeing it, Tele Jon was very accommodating and dropped me at the emergency room

I didnt think much of the second crash on the access road but i do remember seeing that "flash" of light when you whack your head pretty good..I forgot my helmet in the car....needless to say I am very stiff this morning and driving in this morning noticed some extreme stiffness in my neck so I may be heading home to rest and possibly hitting up the Dr to see if I have whiplash or something...

Well it was fun for the first few pitches, then....well. Knock on wood, in my nearly 30 years of skiing this is the first time I had to go to the hospital for anything ski related...

You win some, you lose some.

M
 
skidog mang - to bad I couldn't make it. Was held up with some other business. Curious to find out what is up there though. HUM.

Get better, and don't let it hurt yer pride. It happens to the best of us.
 
salida":34fwcjpz said:
skidog mang - to bad I couldn't make it. Was held up with some other business. Curious to find out what is up there though. HUM.

Get better, and don't let it hurt yer pride. It happens to the best of us.
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Naaaa not hurt in pride..but man the rest of my body feels like I was hit by a truck. I guess that second crash on the access road was worse than I thought. Dont think theres any real damage, but man am I sore..

Next time im waiting for more snow :D

M
 
icelanticskier":103b4kwv said:
jeesh skidog, i hope you feel better quickly. at least i hope you didn't damage that kink in yer neck :mrgreen:
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Thanks rog....you know that kink wont ever be damaged!!!! :D

M
 
Glad your schooling resulted in fairly minimal damage.

Key learnings:
* sometimes, a super-early season day just isn't worth it, even with new snow
* if the snow is our light variety, it's often surprising how easy it is to punch down to rock/crust/substrate, even if there's over a foot.
* knowing when to pull the plug on an early season descent and start walking down is a helpful tool
 
as we were coming in from the beach we heard about the snowfall in Utah. I figured Skidog and Co would have hit the first skiable snow. Sorry to hear about the crash.

Hard to believe there is snow when we just had 4 glorious 75+ degree days at the beach.

We went to Dewey Beach, DE for windsurfing, but there was no wind. We took the boards to the ocean and surfed the waves instead. Didn't suck being at the beach this past weekend, even without the desired wind.

We are enjoying a stellar Indian Summer here. But glad to hear that someone got some early turns in.
 
I was going to make a remark about how admin made the right call. But we all make judgment mistakes, with occasional painful consequences as I found out the hard way last April 12. At least it was early enough that Skidog should be good to go well before the real ski season starts.
 
Patrick":2uf4keb4 said:
He should be okay to continue his ski streak...take care dog, oh, i meant man. 8)
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Unfortunately my streak ended as I didnt get September in....damn baby in the belly....HA.....

I have 2 days on this season already though...i expect a couple more before the lifts start turning....but only if there is more snow.

The body aches, the stitches are good...and all will be well for the first lift served day whenever that is.

thanks all for the concern/well wishes it was just a fluke thing...live and learn...

Talk to you all soon.

M
 
Skidog":2p13ve66 said:
Unfortunately my streak ended as I didnt get September in....damn baby in the belly....HA.....
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What? You ate a baby? I thought only Cheney did that.
 
I think that Skidog's just trying to get as man days in as possible before Mrs. Skidog delivers their first baby this month and shouts (cue Seinfeld's Soup Nazi), "No skiing for you!"
 
Marc_C":1t4m5lcz said:
What? You ate a baby? I thought only Cheney did that.
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This is coming from Marc_C, the man who's been known to say, "I love kids! They taste just like chicken."
 
Admin":aeits6vk said:
I think that Skidog's just trying to get as man days in as possible before Mrs. Skidog delivers their first baby this month and shouts (cue Seinfeld's Soup Nazi), "No skiing for you!"
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I guess he might be able to use the injuries excuse not to go skiing as often in order to save his pride. :lol:

Admin":aeits6vk said:
Marc_C":aeits6vk said:
What? You ate a baby? I thought only Cheney did that.
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This is coming from Marc_C, the man who's been known to say, "I love kids! They taste just like chicken."
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I remember that!!!
 
Patrick":2zovygxs said:
Admin":2zovygxs said:
I think that Skidog's just trying to get as man days in as possible before Mrs. Skidog delivers their first baby this month and shouts (cue Seinfeld's Soup Nazi), "No skiing for you!"
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I guess he might be able to use the injuries excuse not to go skiing as often in order to save his pride. :lol:

Admin":2zovygxs said:
Marc_C":2zovygxs said:
What? You ate a baby? I thought only Cheney did that.
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This is coming from Marc_C, the man who's been known to say, "I love kids! They taste just like chicken."
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I remember that!!!
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Lets just wait and see how many days I get in before we start blaming the new family member....I gotta get 40 minimum.

M
 
Sharon":3i3vtvt6 said:
... (I tried to embed the images/videos from Picasa, but it didn't work...any help on that would be appreciated)

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The embedded link must be to an actual image file ie: a specific JPG file. Your links stop at the internal Picasa index number (which Picasa uses to find and display the proper image), but it's not the file itself.

In Picasa, display your picture of choice. Right click on the picture and select "View Image" (in Firefox). When the image displays as the sole item on the screen (without all the Picasa framework), copy the url in the address bar. It will look something like:
http://lh4.ggpht.com/sharon.heller/SPXQ ... G_1640.jpg

Paste that into your post between the Img tags.
 
Thanks Marc...this works well for the photos but not the videos. I tried using the Flash, but it seems that I can't get the right URL for the video. Right clicking doesn't give me the URL.

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