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April 2008 Skiing Archive

Spring Skiing at Snowbird

SNOWBIRD, UT — A solid ski day at Snowbird with Steve, Chris and Andy. Skied a lot of different areas of the mountain today--Mineral Basin in the morning, Little Cloud Bowl and the Upper Cirque in the mid-morning, Primrose Gully chutes later, and North Baldy in the afternoon.

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

I Need New Ski Boots

SNOWBIRD, UT — Today, I took the day off from work to go skiing. I hoped it would be a good storm skiing day, but it really wasn't that great. The conditions were OK, but the lack of visibility was a problem. I only skied three runs because I couldn't stand the pain caused by my ski boots. And the pain isn't only in my feet. Whatever fit issues I have cause my legs to hurt, too, I think.

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April 5, 2008

ALTA, UT — I don't really understand it, and it's very frustrating, but the polarization between my good ski days and my bad ski days is ridiculous. I went skiing today with Mindy, which would have been perfectly fine, except we ran into Sam and Brian at the Sunnyside lift. So, I took a run with Mindy and then tried to meet up with Sam and Brian on the next run. They were long gone, apparently, by the time I got to Sugarloaf, so I didn't meet up with them. I decided to take a couple of runs anyway before meeting back up with Mindy.

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