SNOWBIRD, UT — I woke up late and missed meeting Dan and Weibke at the park & ride, unfortunately. I headed up there still. I did, however, forget my socks, which, for me, is a potentially damning circumstance.
I ended up wearing those new Smartwool PhD ski socks, which are newer and slightly thicker. Of course, they had to cause me pain. None of that mattered really because as soon as I got to the mountain, I heard from Dan that the toe pieces on the Volkl Gotamas had both fallen off. I was to meet him at the base of GadZoom, which was the lift on which he was riding down.
I gave Dan my car keys so he could get my old skis from my car, have the bindings adjusted, and then we could continue our ski day.
In the meantime, I took one painful, tiring run down from GadZoom. After that run, I just sat in a chair on the Creekside Lodge's deck until I met up with Dan again.
We took one-half of a run together. It turned out that Weibke was feeling sick, so he skied over to where she was on the other side of the mountain. I finished my run on Big Emma, barely able to stand the pain and the fatigue. I kept thinking the whole time that I should just give up skiing. We'll see.
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