Today Susie and I headed up the winding road to Bogus Basin Ski Resort for the first time this year. On Christmas Eve Mike and I bought our season passes. Season passes at Bogus are very reasonable and since the hill is so close to home, an hour or less, we get a lot of use out of our passes each year. Last year neither of us skied. Mike was just finishing up his fire academy and after graduation he didn't want to risk an injury during his first year because he was not only a probationary fire fighter but he was also an "at will" employee meaning if he got hurt outside of work the department could send him walking, or limping if he would have been injured. Anyway ever since Christmas Eve I have had some serious ants in my pants to get out skiing. I worked on Christmas and the day after and Saturday we spent the day running a bunch of errands and tidying up the house a bit. Since Mike was working I decided to see if Susie wanted to head up the hill for a couple of hours since it has been snowing since before we left for Twin Falls.
On a side note.....a few months ago while shopping at Sierra Trading Post I found the score of a lifetime on a new pair of telemark ski boots, $48.99 (retail $498.99). Needless to say I did a cartwheel in the store because I was so happy. I have always hated my tele-boots which were so tight my feet would freeze into little stumps and my poor toe nails took a good beating each year, especially on back country trips.
Ok, back on track. The snow was AMAZING today and I can't wait to head up the hill again tomorrow with Mike and a couple of the guys from the station. Between now and when school starts I hope to get in as much skiing as possible. Even when school starts I will be able to ski quite a bit because getting up and down the hill doesn't take up an entire day. I am pretty lucky to live in such a cool place :)
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