Quest for the West
Warren Miller said, "If you don't do it this year, you will be one year older when you do." I'm making a bunch of plans now so I know what I want to do when this whole thing breaks open. Maybe it's optimistic to assume I'll just be able to tour around in a van and go skiing for a while but frankly I need the hope!
This pandemic is costing us all here more than a year so I want to make the next one really count. I've got the AWD van. Ironically I have to wait until it's warmer out to glue in the insulation pieces I want for winterizing... But it's coming along. And I got some new skis and have been trying to get some decent exercise.
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So while I've got the van and the big fantasy is just to drive to Fernie or wherever, I can't ski like these guys at all. I'd rate myself mediocre-to-average and could probably benefit from a lesson or two. I figure the thing to do is to work up to it.
I'm gonna see them all
What if I tried to go to as many ski resorts along the way as possible? Surely it stands to reason that by the time I got to The Lizard Range that I'd have picked up some skills? Anyways I've started a list of hills nearby. I can work from those and then if the timing is right next year I can follow the winter as far west as I can make it. Maybe it will be a multi-year attempt. Who knows? Sounds fun though.