So I woke up at 4:45am yesterday and was out the door with a friend by 5:20 to hit Kirkwood and do some snowboarding. I havent gone to the snow in 5+ years. Its a 3 hour drive from my house to the mountain which isnt really that bad at all. The night before id dumped 18+ inches of fresh powder but, im assuming, because it was wednesday there were hardly any people. The first chair my friend and i took was for some black diamond runs. The run starts with a 3 to 4 foot drop into powder. The next thousand yards or so was all fresh powder then the run splits into one of 3 ways. Going to the left was a ditch that was all powder and looked like a half pipe, the middle was to a groomed run with a steep grade and the right was the trick course with a huge ramp and lots of rails to gring. Needless to say I sisnt try the rails or the jumps since its been 5 years or more and I dont have a helmet.
Going down the black diamonds was mostly powder as I said untill you hit the groomed areas. Apparently I forgot how to ride in powder. It ate me alive. I fell at least 6 times on the first run in the powder, but never on the groomed snow. I tried the lack diamonds for the first few hours or so but got so wore out from falling and trying to get back up thatI had to go to the car for a beer break. After that I stayed on the groomed runs for the rest of the day, except for the last run. My friend had taken off after the first run we did and was hittin up The Wall. He called me up on the walkie talkie and told me to meet him at a lift when I was done with the trail I was on. So we met up at chair 11 and hit up some powder that hadent been ridden much. I fell 3 times in the powder that last run and by the time we got to the car i was done.
I had a blast! Hopefully ill be able to go again soon... Unfortuniately I didnt bring my camera and I left my phone in the car so i didnt get any pics while boarding. These are from the car about 20 minutes from the resort.
Going down the black diamonds was mostly powder as I said untill you hit the groomed areas. Apparently I forgot how to ride in powder. It ate me alive. I fell at least 6 times on the first run in the powder, but never on the groomed snow. I tried the lack diamonds for the first few hours or so but got so wore out from falling and trying to get back up thatI had to go to the car for a beer break. After that I stayed on the groomed runs for the rest of the day, except for the last run. My friend had taken off after the first run we did and was hittin up The Wall. He called me up on the walkie talkie and told me to meet him at a lift when I was done with the trail I was on. So we met up at chair 11 and hit up some powder that hadent been ridden much. I fell 3 times in the powder that last run and by the time we got to the car i was done.
I had a blast! Hopefully ill be able to go again soon... Unfortuniately I didnt bring my camera and I left my phone in the car so i didnt get any pics while boarding. These are from the car about 20 minutes from the resort.