Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Ski Trip/ Muscle Memory


Happy February!
Well on this first day of February I had quite a day. Last night we had an ice storm and school was canceled. Many parts of town lost power, thankfully our house didn't. Well on Tuesdays a group of kids from my sister's privet school go skiing at this place called Mad River Mountain. Since school was canceled the group obviously didn't go, but my sister really wanted to go still. I have also wanted to go skiing for a long time, I used to go when I went to that school. I have had a gift card to go to that place for a long time, but never got the time, nor the driver to do it. Well as the roads where clear enough to travel. So we got bundled up (this is after I mixed up a batch of cinnamon rolls and set them to rise) got in the car and drove to the mountain.
Well I was kind of nervous about skiing, I mean I haven't skied in a really long time, about three years, and it can be a really hard sport to do. We got our passes and skis and headed to the only open ski lift. There where only a handful of people at the mountain. So we didn't have to wait in line at all which was nice. We got on and off the ski lift with no more issues and slid around to the easiest slope. As soon as we started our decent my mind was still freaking out "Ah this is so slippery! I am going to fall! What if I can't get up again?! I haven't skied in three years how will I know how to do this?!"
But as I started going slowly down Vally View I realized that my legs knew just what to do, and my arms. By the time I got to the bottom I was skiing like a pro. Ok maybe not quite that good, but pretty good. Up the lifts and down the hills, I went. We didn't go on any double black diamonds, but some pretty hard slopes. and Besides my fingers feeling like they would almost fall off (right index) cause I kept taking my glove off to get pictures. I felt pretty good!
There is only one more thing I want to tell you about there was one point where I purposefully crossed to another slope through this little trail. It was curvy and I had a pretty bad fall onto my left side. Again my body took over and totally knew what to do.

Muscle Memory is what I experienced ....

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