Saturday’s late afternoon snowboarding report
Saturday temps hit mid-20s so I and kid#1 packed up our gear and headed out to Afton.
To my amazement a crew member from the past took time off of work and met us out there. Chief has returned.
Packed powered (of course) was the stable for most runs with the occasional “pillow” of snow made by the snow machines (not!).
We forgot kid#1’s goggles so it was an icy dagger run through the snow makers. Fun stuff.
It looked like all of the Meadow and Alps are open. Terrian park in the Meadows and the rabbit run in the Alps. The major runs in the highlands are open. Bridge was open, but full of snow makers. Highland rabbit run was closed. Atomic Drop was closed. Jump Park closed.
Funny story.
We took a run through the meadow’s terrain park so kid#1 could check it out. We stopped at one particularly long kinked-box-slide and watched. Everyone was having problems with it.
1 crew of teenage boys was filming and being a typical all-boy snowboard crew. One member came down and face planted hard. He got up and dusted himself off to the jeers and laughs of his crew. His response, he flipped them the bird.
Kid#1’s eyes got very large and she pulled on my sleeve and pointed for us to go down the hill.
On the chair-lift she leans over to me in a voice filled with exasperation and says, “Dad, did you see that boy give his friends the middle finger?!”
I tried to keep a straight face and just said, “Yep.”
She sat back into the chair-lift and talking to no one in particular said, “Why do teenage boys have to be so naughty!”
Well, isn’t that a question for the ages!
I treasure these times with my daughter. She’s old enough to have an adult conversation with but still young enough to want to be with her dad and thinks it’s cool.