Yeah so I went snowboarding for the first time in like 2 years at least - like 800 days or something and it was at night, and the snow was really really bad..Uh huh sounds like a recipe for disaster huh? Not really it was great.
A co-worker from work haha that was a little repetitive but yeah he's been asking me to go night snowboarding with him for a while and I was like all right sure. I used to snowboard a lot and I've always enjoyed it and I had never been at night so what the heck. Try new things in life right? I was quite nervous to begin with I really didn't know how I was going to handle the whole snowboarding part because I hadn't done it in so long so I was hoping I wouldn't make a fool out of myself because I already knew that he was a pretty good snowboarder. I didn't want to look dumb and make him wait for me to get down every run. Which ended up happening anyways but it was all good. So its about 6 when we get there and the sun is still up and everything is bright which was good I got to see what the runs looked like and stuff. I got onto and off of the lift no problem I was feeling quite good about the situation.
I didnt' have any major problems on the first run I didn't even fall once! I was so proud it was a breeze but the snow was very very hard which makes it very very fast and it was almost like ice and it was only going to get worse...Eric beat me down the hill pretty easily but hey I did pretty good. I needed to work on my turning a bit more but it's hard to practice in poor snow conditions. I am very comfortable on heel side but toe side needs a little work me thinks lol. So yeah mostly I just snowplowed into my turns and then would shoot off strait until I had to snowplow into another turn. But oh well I was justhappy I could keep my balance and everything. One time I got off the lift and went to strap my other boot in and by the time I got done Eric was gone so I was like well okay all the runs end up at the same place anyways so I took off and went over into some weird obscure trail that no one was going on...Yeah bad idea -hence the name. There were a lot of moguls and unmarked rocks coming up out of the ground and trees everywhere I felt like I was in the middle of nowhere it took me like 15 minutes to get through it all but I only bit it bad once, I thought I was going to fall backwards but I over corrected and ended up doing a faceplant into the snow...which felt more like concrete at that point. I'm surprised I didn't break my nose or break an eyelash! It wouldn't have been so bad if I would of had a foot of powder to fall into. We did about 10 or 12 runs before we called it quits and overall it was quite a fun experience and I was quite pleased that I hadn't forgotten all about how to snowboard. Too bad its like the last week of the season, oh well I guess I can go once a year at the end lol.
Yep. That was my night boarding adventure day.
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