As promised from Trace,.... :facepalm3:
What a f#%*'ing mess of a vacation start yesterday. I woke up feeling ill. Same kinda thing that had me miss out on two days in Bend OR @ Bachelor last season. I was stuck in the shitter for hours.
My insides felt & sounded like I had two chipmunks chasing ea. other around my colon. :blink: (...please hold all
Richard Gere references until the end please!)
:laugh:
2-3 hours & Half a
large bottle of Pepto later, I finally get to start packing up the car. So instead of getting up to Highlands by 10:30-11:00,... I'm just now leaving by this time. (Latest start to date!!)
Then, this is the picture that greets me along I-75 as I get closer to Gaylord....
Not a wisp of snow.
Well,... I finally roll into Petoskey around 2:30-3 and it's apparent that Boyne & Highlands still has some snow.
Some.... but Im still feeling pretty "punk" from the mornings illness coupled with the long drive. So I lie down for a few minutes only to wake up
With about two hours left before last chair.
So I rush to get changed & drive the 25-30 min to Highlands and I find I've ridden better snow in
mid April!!!
I'm not even sure it can be called corn. It's just crushed ice on top of boilerplate. And the bulletproof underneath...? In places it's polished smooth as silk and slick as Snot!!!
I did three runs,... nearly fell twice!
....standing at the lift waiting on the chair. NOT the offload,... waiting to sit on the chair for the ride up FFS!!!
The Ice was so slick, my sb boot kept trying to squirt out from under me just standing still. :blink:
I gave up after my third run down. Figured I'd hit the fresh corduroy early this am with the Arbor & see how new bindings & full camber manage frozen groomers. Lol.
....still beats working!
Just not by the HUGE margins it usually does!
:laugh:
-edit-
Welp,... so much for early frozen courd..... FML,.. it's 6:50 am & it's pissing rain!