It was a great, long skiing weekend. I had to work on Friday, but the great thing about living in Los Alamos is that it's only 15 minutes to the ski area, so I was able to get about 2 hours of skiing up at Pajarito on Friday. We had about 3 new inches of snow. It was all a little hard and crusty snow. I feel like I have gotten the tele turn on the blues, groomed slopes, but the challenge is different snow and different terrain. I had a hard time in the crusty snow, it would throw me off balance. I need to get stronger and up my confidence.
I left early Saturday morning to head up to Pagosa. I made it to Michael's house at about 9:30 which got us up on the mountain by about 10:30am. It was cold and snowy, but there was some incredible new powder. I am not a very good powder skier, so I was a little nervous about tele skiing in powder. It turned out to be really fun. It took me a little while to figure out what I was doing. Aside from being very cold, it was a fun day. John Telle and Alexis joined us on the mountain around 1pm.
On Sunday, John T decided also to wear his tele-skis. We also took two runs with Donna who was up in Wolf Creek with some other friends. We did a warm up run and then hiked up to Boundary Bowl to ski some fresh powder. It was a lot of fun but I had a very hard time doing a tele turn in the deep powder and how steep it was. So I ended up alpine turning most of it. We did a few more runs, testing out our turns and then we decided to hit a bump run. I am certainly not ready for bumps, but as they got smaller at the bottom of the run I was learning how to turn in them. John T had some spectacular falls as he was braver than me and just went for it. All in all I think I am getting better at this tele skiing stuff.
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