Day 4 & 5 On the Snow 09/10 Season

Day 4 on the Snow Saturday 1/23/10
Angel Fire Ski Area NM

After 2 full weekends off the snow and on my butt on a couch over the weekends, we finally received some new snow in New Mexico!! We had 3 storms that came through the area, each dumping small 4-8" amounts. Nothing SIC mind you but that’s the hand you deal with when skiing in New Mexico. Headed out early on Friday with Eugene to AF in an attempt to miss the frozen roads expected in the am. The storms covered AF incredibly with a nice blend of heavier powder with a mix of made made snow and AF crust. When I busted up my ribs on day 1 this year, there was still lots of rocks poking through. Not the case this weekend. Overall the snow was soft and incredible. Cold as hell as usual, made it to the backside of the area but it was colder and snowed most of the day. Meet up with a friend from Albuquerque named Mark to teach him how to SkiBike. The guy is an ex moto cross rider and got his head around it very quickly. Had to tell him to slow it down all day but he definitely had a killer time with comments like.....I'll never snow board again!! Came off the mountain at about 2pm exhausted and went to the bar and drank the rest of the day. Very cool day!!!

Day 5 on the Snow Sunday 1/24/10
Angel Fire Ski Area NM

Spent the night with Eugene's dad at his sister's new cabin. Very cool place with an incredible view off the deck. Carl actually offered to buy dinner for us. He's never offered as long as I have known him...I jumped on his offer like a bum on a sandwich!!! Started the day at 12 degress with most of the runs groomed over night. Still lots of untracked and tracked powder if you looked for it. Had to head into the trees for most of it. Meet up with 2 ladies from my work. They had received a day of skibiking for 2 from a united way offer I did through work. Both of them new to skibiking but did very well and had a blast. Completed the day with several tree and WC trail runs. Very cool day, lots of great ridding with my buddy Eugene and Mark from the previous day.

Love...Peace...and SkiBikes.

Randy