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Vail 2008!
By John
Met up with the old VMI crowd for our annual pilgrimage to the skiing mecca that is Vail, Colorado. Charlie --free from the bonds of his deployment-- was also able to join us.... which rocked.
So from our home base of a beautiful (rented) ski cabin, we drank, we skied, we marinated in the cabin hot tub, we drank some more, and I'm not sure I mentioned the drinking.
Charlie cracks me up. For some reason, he was quoting Gladiator all weekend..... lines that stuck with me as --during a super fast trip on the Lodgepole run-- I found myself separated from the earth in a most unexpected soaring catapult off one of the catwalk rollers. Adrenaline has a strange way of affecting the space time continuum, as I distinctly remember the moment lasting long enough for me to closely examine the passing ground below and think to myself:
If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you're already dead!
Of course I didn't land it. Well, not properly at least. Upon recovery of my skis, poles, and a glove... I was told that the skidding lasted for a solid 20 meters *applause*
God it felt good though.
Aside: Skiing is where I'm a ninja!
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ha, that's what's great about skiing John, thanks to fluffy white powder, even your crashes can look awesome. As opposed to just painful, like in pro-skateboarding.
I had another one where I jumped off a ledge into unknown territory below. Found out halfway into the jump that I was leaping into a vicious moguls run. Yup, I wrecked. Hard.
But damn it looked good.
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I went skiing years ago, after a hiatus of several years. I like to go fast, but lost control on one slope, and had a huge wipeout - yardsale all the way up, my wire-rim glasses were bent almost completely in half. As I was recovering and spitting out snow, a snappy couple skied up. "Are you okay?"
Me: "I think so."
Him: "That was specTACular!"