Chris and I went boarding again on Saturday and it was amazing! The weather at Sunshine was an amazing -2C (Calgary was -17C when we left) and the conditions were pretty good with 10cm of fresh snow from the night before. The plans were to meet up with 3 other people at the McDick's by C.O.P.@ 6:30AM but they were all sleeping by the time we showed up, so we decided to head out there first and meet up with them later. We arrived at Sunshine at about 8AM and and got on our first run on Angel at about 8:45AM. We were able to get in another run on Angel before Carla and Miguel showed up at about 10AM. After that we did a few runs on Strawberry and Standish before they called it quits and headed home. I finished the day off with one last run on Angel, while Chris decided to go on 2 runs of Angel before he was done. I would have gone up one more time but didn't think that my legs would be able to handle another run.
Overall it was a really good day for the enhancement of my boarding skills. Doing the runs on Strawberry helped me a lot with my carving technique and I was able to transfer that experience over to my last Angel run. My heel/toe transitions are a lot better than before, though I do manage to catch an edge from time to time and manage a nice big spill as a result. But I am confident that a few more times out on the hill this year will really help improve my skills and perhaps by next year I will be able to take blue/black runs without being scared shitless at the very thought of it!
P.S. I bought a helmet for this venture and it really helped a lot! I recalled hitting my head pretty hard about at least 3 times on this trip. And who would have thought I could find such a big round helmet, haha!
P.P.S. I posted some of the pictures on Flickr (link on sidebar --->)
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