tomorrow i have to wake up and go skiing at 7 am. i am learning how to tele ski. its hard, i hear. i havent skiied since i was 15!! i chipped my tooth last time i went, for those of you who remember that. haha. Tele skiing is sort of like down hill skiing on cross country skis. the bindings are like cross country, where the back comes up off the ski, and you bend your knees all crazy to turn. anyways its really good for powder, and thats what we do in backcountry. so tomorrow i head to targhee to learn tele. i will most likely be sore.
i went on the craziest run today- we went to the butte, R mountain, and ran straight up in in snow halfway up our calves. you could say i was dying and half hiked. my lungs burned like never before. we climed over rock and sagebrush and all kinds of hills, got to the top, ran around the rim, back down, and then around the butte on the road. this all took about 1.5 hours, and it was like an adventure, running around jumping over things in deep snow. the only thing missing was the boundless energy of when i was a kid. our ankles are all red and cut up from the icy snow and i have had this crazy cough all day from doing whatver i did to my lungs. but i thougt it was fun even if it was really hard. well i better go to bed, wish me luck tomorrow!!
Resurrection
4 days ago
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wow. that sounds CRAZy!!! there was this other sub today that reminded me of you, she was talking about taking her kids biking, and she looked really weathered, like she had been outside A LOT (she probably like around 40, but who knows she could be younger), and she said she was a guide on Mt McKinley with the first guy who climbed it in the winter. she seemed pretty hard core. anyways, good luck skiing!!
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