The wedding on Saturday was a blast. From Red Wings championship rallies to teaching the rest of the family how to do the ENTIRE "YMCA" dance, we all had an amazing time.
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday I had a my level 2 alpine certification exam in Taos, New Mexico. So after a hangover recovering breakfast at Denny's with Aunt Nancy and Julie's kids, I packed the car back up for a 9 hour drive back across the desert.
Taos is an amazing place to ski. Cliff drops, tree runs and extreme terrain is seemingly endless. Unfortunately, the lack of snow we've been experiencing led us to a day of solid ice. It was by far the worst day of skiing I've ever experienced. Seriously, every turn I tried to make ended up being a side slip. However, the first day we were just examined on Teaching.
Tuesday we got a light dusting of snow which actually made for fairly decent terrain. After my Movement Analysis exam, I met a girl named Heather (she was doing her cert. as well) and we went to tear up some of the crazy steeps at the resort.
Wednesday I thought things went fairly well (from the feedback I received) on my ski performance examination. I figured if I was going to pass any part of the exam, it would be this day. However, to my dismay I ended up failing every single exam. I forked over $375 to fail this exam, so needless to say I'm still pretty pissed about it (I could have bought a twin board with that amount of money or some jibbers). So please, no sympathy cards and I don't really want to talk about it.
Thursday at about 3 a.m., the snow storm of the freaking year hit Denver. It dumped snow all morning, all day and the following night. All in all, Denver got over a foot of snow (more than the resorts in the mountains)!!! My flight to California was definitely cancelled along with over 300 other flights out of Denver. So Heather and I decided to pack up the Jeep and try to head up to Keystone and shred some of that knee deep powder. Unfortunately, there was a 40 car pile up on I-25, eight accidents on I-70 and closures on every other possible road that could get us up there. So after sitting in traffic for about 30 minutes, we decided to give it a try later that night and just spent the rest of the day vegging out.
Down the street from me, Heather was coincidentally going to see Disturbed and Killswitch Engage (bands that most of my readers probably haven't heard of), and her friend bailed. So I got the extra ticket and got to rock out before heading into the mountains.
Friday we decided last minute to head to Vail (I've never skied there) - GREAT DECISION. The back bowls are everything they're built up to be. I spent the entire day in knee to waist deep powder (by far the best place I've every skied for powder). Completely random - I ran into Dave DeSteiger (friend from high school) at lunch there. Seriously, I see him everywhere; regardless of where I am in the country.
Today Tripp (friend that went I went to college with, but wasn't friends with until now), Heather and I went to Loveland and found nothing less than powder all day, again! These last two days have been the most epic days of the season... I actually can't think of any better riding days I've had in my life.
Side note: I have not received any calls about a new job for next year (starting to get a little worried), Spring Break ends Monday, and I am having the time of my life :) :) :)
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