Steamboat 11/29/09

I arrived back in Steamboat last night so today I enjoyed a good morning of sleeping in before deciding to wrangle up my gear and head to the mountain.  With no new snow on the slopes and people telling me how icy/cruddy the mountain is, I just went to Christie Peak to lap the terrain park for the afternoon.  There were no crowds so it was a mellow day on the slopes.

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It didn’t take more than 1 run to run into people that I knew, saw Sonny and Molly plus a bunch of other instructors lapping park just like I was so I joined in with them.

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I’m feeling a lot more confident on the rails, hitting them as much as possible but also trying to turn my board into a boardslide as well.  It’s still a work in progress and more mental from me that I am not doing it yet but I had fun just working on basics.  I also got another feature down today when I worked on bonking the logs at the bottom of the terrain park so now I’m at 6 features that I can hit in the park out of 12.

Sonny’s 180 over the bonk features

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Nick is our new Terrain Park Manager for Steamboat and made laps with him today, here’s a shot of him on the skate style rail we have setup.

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Molly’s boardslide on the box

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Sonny’s nosepress on the rail

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That was pretty much the day, easy afternoon and just lapping park.  I’m definitely looking forward to midweek laps this week but also hoping for more snow on the mountain.