Days like today don’t come around often. The circumstances leading to bottomless days with nothing but blue sky only come along a few times a year, if at all.
These days validate us, at least our reasoning behind strapping a stick to our feet and sliding downhill. The early mornings, the injuries, the thousands and thousands of dollars spent over the years are all justified by these perfect days.
As the day wore on our legs wore out from the hot laps on the backside. The powder fields became moguls and the sun dipped behind the mountain. Driving home the clouds rolled in and covered Mt. Bachelor’s peak, the beginning of another storm.
Guy Olson lays into a slash on the backside
This article appears in Feb 26 – Mar 4, 2009.
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“The circumstances leading to bottomless days with nothing but blue sky only come along a few times a year, if at all.”
WHAT??? I thought we had 375 days of sunshine a year!
True, but how often does it snow over 10 inches the night before a sunny day.