week and a bit of madness
whoa its bin a crazy week or so.....it started with 3 ski patrollers dying in a freak accident on the mountain...they were shifting a fence around a sulpher pond/vent when it gave way and they fell in....we arrived nearby soon after itt had happened...needless to day the whole community up here is pretty shocked by it..
we also broke last years record season with the most snow ever...50feet and counting...i mean it is spring well and truly (i have been riding in a t-shirt) but it is still storming...its freakin easter and its snowing! as a result the mountain has extended out the season till the 4th of july....
i have finished work...thank god...its spring break and has been pretty busy and what with every one leaving staff is stretched...i feel sorry for all the americans left with all work...
In honour of my last week/people leaving there were assorted parties and dinners: the-canyon-thank-you-party, the-rental-shop-thank-you-dinner, the-last-day-celebratory-party, the-foreigners-are-all-leaving-lets-get-drunk-on-last-time-party basically meaning that i spent a good 6 days hungover/drunk....
One of my room mates, amanda, was pretty sick for mos of last week and hen was admitted to hospital...her parents drove up to get her and for a while there i was set to leave mammoth in 12hrs time...but i didnt...so my plans for a road trip around california are on hold if not abandoned pending her health etc...
sunday was the last day of june mountains season...sad to see it close it is such an amazing place to ride....also the place i hit my first box and after two tries could slide it without eating shit....pretty exciting..
all this is topped off by an avalanche on the top of the mountain just behind the chair we were headed to and above where the earlier accident had occurred...it was a massive slide something like 700ft across which consequently meant the entire mountain was shut down for safety reasons as everyone was sent on rescue efforts...stranding us halfway across the mountian....
All this and im trying to get in as much time on the mountain as possible as i have only 3 days left in mammoth before heading down south to catch up with amanda...
we also broke last years record season with the most snow ever...50feet and counting...i mean it is spring well and truly (i have been riding in a t-shirt) but it is still storming...its freakin easter and its snowing! as a result the mountain has extended out the season till the 4th of july....
i have finished work...thank god...its spring break and has been pretty busy and what with every one leaving staff is stretched...i feel sorry for all the americans left with all work...
In honour of my last week/people leaving there were assorted parties and dinners: the-canyon-thank-you-party, the-rental-shop-thank-you-dinner, the-last-day-celebratory-party, the-foreigners-are-all-leaving-lets-get-drunk-on-last-time-party basically meaning that i spent a good 6 days hungover/drunk....
One of my room mates, amanda, was pretty sick for mos of last week and hen was admitted to hospital...her parents drove up to get her and for a while there i was set to leave mammoth in 12hrs time...but i didnt...so my plans for a road trip around california are on hold if not abandoned pending her health etc...
sunday was the last day of june mountains season...sad to see it close it is such an amazing place to ride....also the place i hit my first box and after two tries could slide it without eating shit....pretty exciting..
all this is topped off by an avalanche on the top of the mountain just behind the chair we were headed to and above where the earlier accident had occurred...it was a massive slide something like 700ft across which consequently meant the entire mountain was shut down for safety reasons as everyone was sent on rescue efforts...stranding us halfway across the mountian....
All this and im trying to get in as much time on the mountain as possible as i have only 3 days left in mammoth before heading down south to catch up with amanda...
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