Some Lake Tahoe resorts were claiming an unbelievable 5 feet (150cm) of snow over the course of the week. We had to go check it out for ourselves, so we headed to the cabin on Friday night. After the now usual Caltrans-induced traffic pain on stormy nights (6 hours "drive"), we woke up on Saturday to find near perfect conditions: cold, 2ft+ of new snow, sun shining, etc. We decided to ski Alpine, as we had not been there this season. Snow conditions were absolutely amazing, in some spots I could make my entire pole disappear in the powder (50inches-125cm). To make our friends who stayed home jealous, Maureen took a couple of video clips of me playing in the white stuff. I hope you enjoy them, because this is the last bit of skiing I will be doing for a while. At 3:30 PM I was enjoying my last run of the day, when my right binding released. Unlike John Cusack on K-12, I decided to abort my run (Let's pretend this has nothing to do with my one-ski skiing ability, but more with the fact that I did not feel like hiking up too much to look for my ski stuck in the powder). Unfortunately I twisted my leg trying to come to a stop, and while I was taking a glorious faceplant I heard a nasty pop in my knee. Ski Patrol, luge, first aid hut, Truckee Emergency Room, what a fun way to end a ski weedend. At least I made a new friend in the ER.
The ER-Doc thinks my ACL is torn, I'll get a second opinion next week so I keep my fingers crossed. More pix can be found here.
1 comment:
Hello, en effet on est assez jaloux de vos conditions de ski. Moins de ta condition medicale. On espere que c'est pas trop grave et que tu ne devras pas passer sur le billard.
Nous on va a Villars pour la 2eme semaine de Paques, il y a aussi des tonnes de neiges et donc ca devrait etre pas mal. Camille est inscrite a des cours de ski et on espere qu'elle va definitvement accrocher avec ses skis "araignee".
Bonjour a tout les deux et on attends des nouvelles
Ciao Dim
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