Excitment

Today was great skiing weather! It was fairly warm, the snow was packed powder.

Though one of my favorites was closed for racing training (the only trail they do this with) and another was in no shape to be skied the rest of the trails made up for it. For the most part the trails were not crowded at all. I did hear reports through the day of people getting injured and tried to ski well before or after the mini crowds that tend to ski together. For the most part this keeps accidents to a much smaller number. Today though my luck ran out (well not entirely).

I was skiing down a Intermediate trail when another skier flew past me only to stop at a strange point. I changed my trajectory a little to avoid being in his path. He shot by me again a little close for comfort, but I was glad to be rid of him when I was unexpectedly run over by another skier (I think it was a Skier). She ran over the back of my skis and hit me nearly in the middle of my back. I'm not really sure she could have avoided me, she was that dead on.

She apologized right away and we made sure we were both ok. Thankfully we were fine as it was a low speed crash. Pat said my fall was one of the most graceful he's seen. I did a few more runs and then called it quits as i was a little sore.

In all it was a great skiing day, with a minor unfortunate incident.