Beauty day at Sunshine. White Lightning is solid all over the hill now, and turns on the jets on the groomers. Didn't even blink at that sketchy sidestep around to the shoulder 4m up on the rocks with only 6" wide to work with.
Jonny Rocket was on his own skis and boots for the first time today. He's skiied 8 times. But we all know Jon isn't timid when it comes to speed, steeps, or technical sections, and the terrain park. The bike gang had wondered what Jon would be like on skis. I can say he skis like an adult with superior strength and endurance, with the exuberance of youth he brings to everything, mixed with the downhill talents of a singletrack phenom, all in a 9.9 on the gusto scale and a 0.2 on the fear scale bombing around in a blaze of snowflakes. What did you expect?!
So much fun! Spent a few runs warming up, few challenging ourselves on some Standish steeps, then a half dozen speed groomers on Divide plus a trip through the terrain park each trip. I had a sweet jump on the big one where my left ski ejected on landing, and then my right about a second later. In a surreal outcome, I just boot skied the packed snow with normal form like nothing happened - the ejection was so clean. Turned around and they both were just parked on the landing pointing straight down with the brakes dug into the snow... but didn't want to try my luck again till after lunch and a binding snug up.
After a superb lunch with chili piled on everything we made our way to Standish, the terrain park, Shoulder, Goat's Eye and home.
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