Cat skiing

Day one was great... for 2 runs.  A high speed compression on second run tweaked my back, grimaced remainder of day, and skiied stiff, which is a downward spiral towards ruining every bit of grace and balance.

I went for a massage, after a thirsty beaver beer.  That helped.  Some radiologist girls got the shot ski and flaming sambuca action going after dinner... but since we had a law enforcement quality breathalyzer here, things stayed under control (I'm not in a voracious drinking mood, despite the being a guinnea pig for the flame exercise), but never got above 0.02.

Woke up stiff and immobile, went over to the stretch room for 45 mins and did what I could.  Was ok through breakfast, then survived first run... the bright blue skies, massive amounts of snow, new terrain opening thanks to the heli bombs and one of the coolest/biggest avalanches I've seen just made every run better.  My back agreed, and by the end of the day it was big air, 360's and cliff drops.  Funny how tweaks are binary - they either are immobilizing or gone.

Island Lake is awesome, it's like heaven.  This place serves up some of the greatest snippets of this thing called life, yeah!

The crisp sunny day blue sky mountain powder photos will follow from all the real hand Canon's everyone is wielding.  (You're advised not to carry cell phones in conjunction with an avalanche beacon).