rough riders

on three and a half hours sleep we rolled up to whistler for the last weekend of the season and the telus party(basically wakefest). my sister sarah is living there and working at rics. we stayed with her and she took care of us. i haven't boarded for 3 years and was kinda worried about the rust. i got hooked up with free passes and rentals. it was basically like new years eve up there. tonnes of people and too many events to make it to. valentino had a friend that was a kokanee rep so we had access to everything we wanted to hit.

whistler has to have the highest concentration of red heads i've ever seen... guys, girls, animals... and if they don't have red hair they get streaks put in. like the south park ginger episode except no leader. the sedins must go up there when they aren't leading the nucks to game seven victories

me and sar outside her place.

we finally hit the hill about mid-day... listening to adrian tell us that it was only his sixth time riding... me and sarah privately decided that at anytime during the day we would ride down beside him and push him over, codeword for this was "blue moon" ... adrian asked what it meant as we were mentioning it all the time... i told him it was a trick where you grab the board between your legs on a jump... mr. oblivious.

the conditions were good, base was 320, surprising they were shutting down with that much snow left. we met up with a bunch of her roomates and went at it. my binding broke first run. luckily it was demo day at the peak and i hooked up a brand new board for the day instead of the boulder breaker that they had given me.... it like riding a bike, i was back in the mix pretty quick, except in places that absolutely required making a turn on ice and moguls.... in a few of those situations, i don't care if there was a baby, salma hayek or a winning lotto ticket.... i was just not gonna be stopping... lol. on the long runs i was screamin like ricky bobby "i'm going fast again momma"

adrian and sarah rollin to the bottom of a black diamond that we ambushed adrian with

operation "blue moon" initialized at the summit

we kept threatening to dirty up adrians bleach jacket, riding like he was straight outta a catalogue.

on the gondola

the big air event that we didn't make it to because we were napping and/or watching the nucks.

we went to dinner at ric's, met some more of her friends and roomates, drinks, needless to say.

adrian knows that there can be two number 1's

we were chilling with this stagette most of the night, pretty fun... ran our own little vip room. too much jaeger.