Our first, not so great, ski day!

Today was our first team ski practice! I drove up last night and stayed at one of my bother in laws friend's cabin. I love this little cabin! It is so cozy and warm! I arrived first and couldn't reach the key...and when I finally found something to stand on, I thought the key wasn't there...when in reality it was there but just pushed far enough back that my short legs couldn't get me close enough to it! It was freezing and jumping up and down was not working....After about 20 minutes I finally was able to reach the key! I got in, turned on the heater and started unloading my car! The others arrived soon there after and we chatted for a few hours before hitting the sacks!

As soon as the sun came up we were ready to go! I, unfortunately, realized had left my ski boots at my house in San Francisco, so I was definitely going to need to rent some stuff that day. Once I got up to the resort, I saw that there wasn't a lot of snow....so I decided to rent everything b/c I didn't want to ruin my skis.

After our annoucements, we were broke off into groups. My group was for people that have skied before and are comfortable on skis but that wanted to skate ski this year. Because the snow wasn't that great, none of us were going skate ski that day....we were going to perfect our striding abilities. Most of us needed to get our ski legs back...so it was good that it worked out this way.

All and all that day was a good day. I skied a total of just shy of 9 miles that day. The majority of what I skied was after our lunch break. I broke away from the masses with some of the guys and we took off to all the trails that were open that day. We skied through a lot of mud, grass and snow (more mud and grass then snow), but in all honesty I thought it was good that our first ski day had so many obstacles. We would be skiing along just fine then WHAM!, we would hit mud...and for those of you that don't know what happens when you hit mud....you get thrown off balance and more then likely you will fall. Luckily I only fell 2 times that day...but it was a challenge to make sure I was upright for longer then I was on the ground!

I ended up not going back up the next day to ski, mainly b/c the snow was going to be so beat up from us skiing on it. I figured I would give it a few weeks and when we have our next team practice the snow should be better and I will be able to skate ski!