Snow, Spring and Boarding

Two weekends ago Emiel and I set out on a journey to any resort that a bus could take us. We left my place at 530am and with no bus reservation we took a chance, no a big one mind you but a chance nonetheless. We usually make a reservation with my councilor at work but she forgot, oooooor she didn't understand, more of the latter I suppose. I usually ask the more fluent Sunny who is great. I though I would give her a break from my hassling and so the story goes, stick with what works. Well we made it onto a bus headed for Phoenix Resort with some trouble from the bus driver but since we played handsome dumb foreigners we made it to the hill. Now imagine leaving a place that is far above 0 and without any sign of snow for a 100 km. And so we show up at a hill with some snow looking good enough to ride for the day. We approached the ticket booth and a young mad asked if we are paying in cash and as there is no other way for me to pay, here we are, YES, he says, I will get you 50% off, just wait. OK. done and done, we saved about 40 bucks cdn on the kindnes of Koreans. We made it, we are happy and ready to go. Now Emiel just got back from Columbia and I have to say I did not expect to see such aggressive behaviour on the hill from him. He was trying everything. It was great to see. We ended up having a great day of nice rails, nice jumps, hard falls and well, as the picture shows a lot of snow. we couldn't see more than 10 feet in front of us for about an hour, it felt like home. So with the day near an end. We tried a few more rails and as you can see in the picture it is a metal rail. My last attempt on this bad boy just about put me in the hospital. I approached, it looked good, but then I hit a wet spot, lost speed, my board stopped and i kept going up into the air and smack down onto the rail. Luckily I hit on an angle and my shoulder to hip took most of the force. I hung over the rail thinking how I should be out cold right now. I pulled myself off the rail and looked up, only to see white and more stars in the sky that anyone should see during the day. Emiel was in shock and didn't know what to do. But in the end I was ok, only my ego was slightly bruised. I spent the rest of the day drinking some hot choco and waiting for the bus to take us home. All in all it was a great day for two friends to spend together.