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[raisingarizona]

Wait til your 60

I’m not sure I’ll be skiing at that age.

 

[tirolski]

I’m not sure I’ll be skiing at that age.

If ya train em right yer kids will help ya get ya off yer rocker to go with them.

 

[raisingarizona]

If ya train em right yer kids will help ya get ya off yer rocker to go with them.

At 60 I may be more into spending my winters down in Mexico

 

[raisingarizona]

The Sonoran Desert is growing on me. It’s a really nice place to visit in January or February. Day time highs are right around 70. I spent a few days working in Superior this week, it’s a cool, historic mining town that the AZT runs through.

 

[raisingarizona]

Drove up to the hill for the Sunday afternoon session thinking it may be clearing out. Got booted up and hiked up to the big chair to find lines way out the maze. It was popping up there! DJ’s spinning records, young people drinking, beautiful woman taking selfies….all of that! I quickly turned around and bailed. I wasn’t about to sit in an hour long line of traffic for four to six hot laps on ridiculously crowded slopes.

The boots went on, I’m marking it down dude!

Day 11.

 

[Harvey]

hot laps

Can the laps really be hot if you have an hour to cool off in line? ?

 

[raisingarizona]

Can the laps really be hot if you have an hour to cool off in line?

Well, to be honest each lift line I could have made happen in 20 minutes or less but the traffic leaving the area was what I was more concerned about.

The snow play around highway 180 (the road from town to the ski area) has been a contentious issue for many years now. The Phoenix folks will park all along the road to make snowballs, snowman and sled down the very tiny hills surrounding the highway. Sometimes thousands of cars. People will bust out bbq’s and and folding chairs etc. Locals have been saying that it’s only a matter of time before someone gets hit and unfortunately yesterday was that day. A young kid ran out and was killed. Hopefully this gets the attention of law enforcement and they start really staying on top of keeping people from parking along there. It is illegal but it’s gotta be hard for them to keep up with that.

 

[raisingarizona]

Just passing through Miami, Az.

 

[raisingarizona]

Day 12 and 13. Yesterday was rad. I ate 8 to 10 mg’s throughout the day and was sent off deep into ski world, Wanananana…..
Ski on chairs and soft, super fun conditions. I definitely scared myself a few times and kept the adrenaline pumping all day. I probably did 20 laps or so which would put me somewhere around 40k of vert for the day.

I paid for that fun today tho unfortunately. My recovery time has recently changed by a large margin. I can’t go back at it the day following a big day. It was much colder and windier today so conditions firmed up and it was a lot busier. That combined with fatigue put me on the defensive side of things and on run two I almost hit a small kid while probably going 50 mph. That kid decided to traverse all the way across the run as I got close, it was a random directional change on a narrower section of trail. With the firmer snow it was a lot harder to make a last minute adjustment and my reflexes didn’t feel on point. It scared the crap out of me so I was done. Getting older is definitely an adjustment that takes a bit of figuring out.

Hopefully I can get back out on Monday for a warmer and quiet ski on sort of afternoon.

 

[tirolski]

I paid for that fun today tho unfortunately. My recovery time has recently changed by a large margin. I can’t go back at it the day following a big day. It was much colder and windier today so conditions firmed up and it was a lot busier. That combined with fatigue put me on the defensive side of things and on run two I almost hit a small kid while probably going 50 mph. That kid decided to traverse all the way across the run as I got close, it was a random directional change on a narrower section of trail. With the firmer snow it was a lot harder to make a last minute adjustment and my reflexes didn’t feel on point. It scared the crap out of me so I was done. Getting older is definitely an adjustment that takes a bit of figuring out.
Hopefully I can get back out on Monday for a warmer and quiet ski on sort of afternoon.

Stay well and safe RA.
An older lady got slammed in the Teton’s a few weeks back.

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