It was another beautiful day to Ski Patrol up at Skeetawk Ski area. It was only 5 degrees when I got there but once the sun came up, it started to really warm up. I like to ski on Sundays because I reserve Saturdays to hiking with the Valley Wanderers. It also tends to be slower on Sundays. I skied hard most of the day. But in the afternoon, Max, the Skeetawk Patrol Manager offered to drive me up to the upper mountain on the snow machine to where the Snow Cat takes people who don't mind spending a huge sum to get a little longer run. I had never been up there to have the pleasure of skiing down. I had also not been on a snow machine since 1987! Max likes to drive fast and I hopped onto the back of the snow machine, and he whisked me quickly around the curves to where I got to hop off. The ride up was almost as much fun as the ski down. The trail up there is freshly groomed, and it was a fabulous ski down. Max sped down below and took a video of me skiing down. That was kind of fun since I've never seen myself downhill ski. At least I didn't have a horrible crash requiring the Ski Patrol to rescue me. I'd hate to have to rescue myself. I felt quite energized after that run down and went back to the lift to do as many more, shorter runs as time allowed until sweep time. It was a really great day.
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| Max Coffey |
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