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How to Survive a Ski Resort Town: 2013/2014 edition

Started by Da6s, October 31, 2013, 06:56:27 PM

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October 31, 2013, 06:56:27 PM Last Edit: October 31, 2013, 08:33:40 PM by Da6s
4th winter in the mountains. Going to try a similar direction to the one I wanted last years to go in, before shitty job and shitty shitty schedule ruined it. The format may be shorter than past posts, with more pictures and more one off's bitching about things. Such as


It's god damned October. Today is the 4th fucking day in a row we've had snow. Said snow was supposed to have stopped last night sometime. It didn't. Normally I'd be stoked for this, but noooo. The mountain I look at while working doesn't open for another 8 fucking days. The one mountain that is open, Arapahoe Basin (A-Bay, A-Basin, my pre or post season mountain) fucking closes at 4:00 PM. Since I'm now a member of the US worker drone society, my 7 am - 4 pm does not allow me to make it over.

Having said that, despite only being open for 2 and a half weeks, I've already ridden 3 days. Which is a sign my season is off to a strong start. Here's hoping I don't get fucked like last season.

Either my first or second winter out here I managed to royally fuck my right knee up. It happened in either the Outback at Keystone first winter or in a powder day at Vail during second winter or both. Basically, I managed to twork my knee in both instances. At Keystone, I hit an unexpected mogul, overcompensated with a hard turn to survive it without bailing which my knee was not prepared for. This happened near the end of the season, I took a week and a half off, and went back. It was tender but I never had any issue walking on it. The second at Vail was worse. It was a crazy powder day with hellacious flat light. For the uninitiated, "flat light" is when it's a cloudy/demi-foggy day on the mountain with the sun shining through the fog/clouds. The light from this causes the snow to appear flat, despite that it may be a very steep section. The problem with flat light is it's impossible to judge misfalls such as gulleys or ravines, or in psychotic cases, cliffs/drops. In flat light you typically use trees to gauge descents. What happened to me in this case was I was playing in a bowl in a sick 4 inches of powder. At the end of the bowl there's this long cattrack back to the lift. I was enjoying myself and playing, and didn't see a ravine to the left side until I was already inside of it. I made an attempt to carve out of it too late, and ended up slamming the nose of my board into a powder wall. Momentum kept me going and though I was able to bend my left knee properly to fall, my right knee came into the stop at a very bad angle and I torked it really bad again. Much worse, as I fell over in pain and back slid down the ravine. It took me a solid 45 minutes to dig myself out. Fuck flat light.

Once I got back up and started skating (when front foot is strepped into board, and back foot pushes similar to propelling a skateboard" toward the lift. I made my way back to the village and everytime I had weight on my right knee it would burn in agony and start to tremor. I only went out for maybe 5 more days that season, luckily this happened end of Feb so my season was almost over.

Last year I had an epic powder day at Beaver Creek and decided to say fuck it and ride like hell all day. 6 hours in of total leg abuse and my legs feel like jello. On my last run back to the viillage base area I had to swerve hard to avoid a beginner who should not have been on a blue run and in the process my knee noped the fuck out and decided it was done for the day. This caused me to actually walk with a limp for 3 - 4 days. Happened in mid february, and cut my season short.

Went to dr for preventative care visit recently and asked about the knee. He checked it, said he thought it was fine with the exception of the muscle on the left side of said knee, no clue what it's called. As a result i'm now doing band exercises to strengthen it as well as wall sits. Bring it the fuck on.

As I was saying, it's still fucking snowy and 25 degrees and my goddamned mountain doesn't even open until a week from tomorrow. Pointless fucking snow. It's not even accumulating really, just blowing and making everyone out in it miserable for no reason. I hate wind snow.





Might continue this one. Might create a new. we'll see.
We appear to be doomed by our DNA to repeat the same destructive behaviors our forebears have repeated for millenia. If anything our problem solving skills have actually diminished with the advent of technology & our ubiquitous modern conveniences. & yet despite our predisposition towards fear-driven hostility; towards what we anachronistically term primitive behavior another instinct is just as firmly encoded in our make-up. We are capable as our ancestors were of incredible breathtaking acts of kindness. Every hour of every day a man risks his life at a moments notice to save another. Forget for a moment the belligerent benevolent billionaires who grant the unfortunate a crumb of costfree cake. I speak of pure acts of selflessness. A Mother who rushes into the street to save a child from a speeding vehicle. A person who runs into a burning building to reach a family trapped on the upper story. Such actions,such moments,such unconscious selfless decisions,define what it is to be human

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November 01, 2013, 11:12:15 AM
Sucks, man. Nothing as sure to fuck up your day a an injury. My legs are hunky dory but my right shoulder is hanging on by the tendons and my left aint far behind. I have a "good" GP who'll write a script for all the painkillers I can eat and I bind it up nice and tight when I'm going to be abusing it. I could go for an op but there's no guarantee it won't make it worse and I'm likely to be out of commission for months, then it takes even longer to rebuild the muscle. Fuck that noise! Welcome to the wonderful world of sporting injury. It's all downhill from here.

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Da6s

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March 15, 2014, 11:49:51 AM
After years of the same topic I feel like anything I bitch about in here is tired.

But goddammit, there's a lot of shit here that just fucking pisses me off on a god damned daily basis.

I was almost hit again in a crosswalk the other day. Fucking signs. Fucking stripes. No flashing lights like the crosswalk of killing tourists in Keystone. But still. No fucking reason for it. Oh, and the tags on the fucking SUV? TEXAS. No big surprise there. There's actually been a lot of fucking idiots from Illinois here this past week too. I'm not sure why. Must be this crazy fucking amazing snow year we've been having, complete with the beast staying open until almost May.

Snow's awesome, but have I gotten to really enjoy it? No, because last season sucked and in the summer I was of the mindset that "hey, a M-F 9-5 wouldn't be so bad and would be hella better than working nights!". Which it is. But the downside is I have only been able to get out on Saturday or Sunday, like some fucking Denverite. In addition to that, we've had snow literally every 3 - 4 days since Jan 1st, which caused my car to be stuck inside of tire-molded ice for almost a month and a half. But I got it out on Wednesday with kitty litter and 2 others helping me push it, so there's that. Oh, and others had tried to help me push it before and it did NOTHING.

Car's currently possessed too. Battery died because it gets fucking cold here and the battery was 4.5 years old anyways, replaced it and it fried my alarm system. Unfortunately, it didn't fry it so that it stopped working, no, quite the opposite. Now any time my drivers side door is opened the alarm goes off for 20 seconds. Every. Fucking Time. Day tripping to denver in a few hours to hopefully get it fixed. If not, I'm ripping the fuse out because I honestly don't give a shit about the alarm system. I wanted to replace that car this November. As a result of Jan-Feb, I can't. The fact I'm moving to Boulder in July/August doesn't help with the finances for that either.

If one more person asks me where they can buy "legal pot" i'm going to shank them with my goddamned scraper. At least they're giving us a shitload of money for our schools.

Flying to DC on Thursday for a few nights of sinning and visiting some friends, one who's about to move to the UK indefinitely/get hitched. I need to start forcing myself to sit down and post these as soon as I get home from walking in/through town. That's when I'm angriest. This post was just kind of killing time before daylight donuts and then first chair after staying up all night. Hooray.
We appear to be doomed by our DNA to repeat the same destructive behaviors our forebears have repeated for millenia. If anything our problem solving skills have actually diminished with the advent of technology & our ubiquitous modern conveniences. & yet despite our predisposition towards fear-driven hostility; towards what we anachronistically term primitive behavior another instinct is just as firmly encoded in our make-up. We are capable as our ancestors were of incredible breathtaking acts of kindness. Every hour of every day a man risks his life at a moments notice to save another. Forget for a moment the belligerent benevolent billionaires who grant the unfortunate a crumb of costfree cake. I speak of pure acts of selflessness. A Mother who rushes into the street to save a child from a speeding vehicle. A person who runs into a burning building to reach a family trapped on the upper story. Such actions,such moments,such unconscious selfless decisions,define what it is to be human

Da6s

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March 15, 2014, 11:50:55 AM
Forgot to mention that we're in weekend 2 of spring break and fuck everyone.
We appear to be doomed by our DNA to repeat the same destructive behaviors our forebears have repeated for millenia. If anything our problem solving skills have actually diminished with the advent of technology & our ubiquitous modern conveniences. & yet despite our predisposition towards fear-driven hostility; towards what we anachronistically term primitive behavior another instinct is just as firmly encoded in our make-up. We are capable as our ancestors were of incredible breathtaking acts of kindness. Every hour of every day a man risks his life at a moments notice to save another. Forget for a moment the belligerent benevolent billionaires who grant the unfortunate a crumb of costfree cake. I speak of pure acts of selflessness. A Mother who rushes into the street to save a child from a speeding vehicle. A person who runs into a burning building to reach a family trapped on the upper story. Such actions,such moments,such unconscious selfless decisions,define what it is to be human

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March 15, 2014, 02:09:46 PM
Quote from: Da6s on March 15, 2014, 11:50:55 AM
Forgot to mention that we're in weekend 2 of spring break and fuck everyone.

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