Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Boarding
Sunday morning I woke up at 6am to meet Cano and his two friends Marco and Macro to hit the mountains for a day of snowboarding. We pilled in Cano’s car and started making the 2hr trek to the slopes. There are some resorts that are only 45 mins from Bergamo but his buddies wanted to go to this specific place in hopes of better snow.
Since I was gone all last winter in Australia it was my first time up in 2 years. I don’t consider myself a great snowboarder by any means but I hold my own and won’t slow the group down.
The snow was…how can I say this….SHIT. There was definitely a lot of it but it was far from fresh and almost completely ice. Ever since I was 14 I haven’t been able to enjoy myself boarding because the whole time I hear my dad’s voice in the back of my head, “Don’t screw your shoulder up”. First it was don’t get hurt so that I could get my simple minded butt into a good college, and then it was don’t mess up your arm and not be able to play when season comes around, and now they are actually paying me so I feel pretty obligated to keep my body healthy. Don’t get me wrong I didn’t just go heal side scootching down the runs on my ass the whole time but I definitely threw in a few extra check turns to keep me under arm-breaking speed. Even though the conditions weren’t perfect and I couldn’t get Pops out of my head it felt great to be up there.
The mountains are cool and all but I would still take the ocean any and every single day over them…just not really my thing.
-Bus #10
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Russ
ReplyDeleteSounds like your "Pops" is a very smart man. I bet, as you go through lifes travels, you wish you listened to him more!