J.D.
11-29-2003, 09:30 PM
Wow... This was what I'd call a "bad" day at the mountain.
Ok here's what happened today. I went up the mountain as usual, and brought along my Brintons and my old Salomons for rails, which I decided to leave in the car. So I go up and go through a few runs.
First of all, let me say, this was not a good day. It was crowded, and the snow was either Ice (on one chair) and slush on the other one. A lot of snow fell last night so there was a lot of me landing in what looked solid enough but instead planting my foot 2 feet into the side of a hill.
Plus, I MYSELF was having a horrible day. I could hardly land anything, Which made me want to do too much, and I just kept getting worse. And the ice didn't help on the landings. Eventually, off what wasn't even a big kicker, I did SOMETHING to my knee, I don't know what, but I'm still limping. Something twisted in the joint maybe, I don't think it's sprained.
Now one run after doing that, I land a much larger jump that someone had nicely built with a big steep run up down the side of one of the runs. I landed, but I came down with one foot on the back of my binding. For the rest of the run I couldn't figure out why I couldn't turn left properly, until I took off my skiboard.
I bent my binding! It's totally screwed up, I'll post a pic of it later. My X1s have finally let me down... thankfully no damage to the boards, at least.
So I basically spent the rest of the day in ice on crappy salomon 99.9s... strange thing was I stuck everything in the afternoon...I wasn't going that big though, and my knee hurt like a bitch.
So that was my shitty day. That marks the 2nd pair of skis/skiboards I've broken in 4 trips up the mountain (I wrecked one pair of twintips by landing on a rock, but they can be fixed). I'll order some Bombers to replace the X1s when I have the cash I guess... Until then I suppose I'll be mostly twin tip skiing, cuz the snowblades are kinda weak.
Heh...kinda funny that my All metal bindings get wrecked while my crappy salomons are fine...eh, shit happens. I just hope my knee's ok for wednesday when I go again, or it's gonna hurt.
Ok here's what happened today. I went up the mountain as usual, and brought along my Brintons and my old Salomons for rails, which I decided to leave in the car. So I go up and go through a few runs.
First of all, let me say, this was not a good day. It was crowded, and the snow was either Ice (on one chair) and slush on the other one. A lot of snow fell last night so there was a lot of me landing in what looked solid enough but instead planting my foot 2 feet into the side of a hill.
Plus, I MYSELF was having a horrible day. I could hardly land anything, Which made me want to do too much, and I just kept getting worse. And the ice didn't help on the landings. Eventually, off what wasn't even a big kicker, I did SOMETHING to my knee, I don't know what, but I'm still limping. Something twisted in the joint maybe, I don't think it's sprained.
Now one run after doing that, I land a much larger jump that someone had nicely built with a big steep run up down the side of one of the runs. I landed, but I came down with one foot on the back of my binding. For the rest of the run I couldn't figure out why I couldn't turn left properly, until I took off my skiboard.
I bent my binding! It's totally screwed up, I'll post a pic of it later. My X1s have finally let me down... thankfully no damage to the boards, at least.
So I basically spent the rest of the day in ice on crappy salomon 99.9s... strange thing was I stuck everything in the afternoon...I wasn't going that big though, and my knee hurt like a bitch.
So that was my shitty day. That marks the 2nd pair of skis/skiboards I've broken in 4 trips up the mountain (I wrecked one pair of twintips by landing on a rock, but they can be fixed). I'll order some Bombers to replace the X1s when I have the cash I guess... Until then I suppose I'll be mostly twin tip skiing, cuz the snowblades are kinda weak.
Heh...kinda funny that my All metal bindings get wrecked while my crappy salomons are fine...eh, shit happens. I just hope my knee's ok for wednesday when I go again, or it's gonna hurt.