Hello Silver Star (Take 2).
· Dec 8, 08:56 PM
We’re back. And I’m excited. Very excited. After two weeks in Montana we made the two day drive across the border and I’m again settling into a condo on the Knoll at Silver Star (if it sounds fancy and resorty, that’s because it is). Yesterday’s drive (Bozeman to Spokane) was smooth sailing – 400 miles and 6 hours of I-90. Today wasn’t particularly hard, but it just didn’t go as fast. Between crossing the border (3 minutes) and shopping for food in Vernon (more than 3 minutes), it took somewhere between 7 and 8 hours to get up here, but we still made it in time for an evening ski.
The skiing is, for lack of a better word, perfect. Sure it’s cold outside (-18.2° C), but that’s kinda warm compared to the temps we had this weekend and yesterday in Bozeman. I haven’t bothered to look at a forecast, but I’m pretty sure we’ll be seeing a lot of cold powder skiing through this weekend.
The other reason I’m excited to be here is that I’m feeling much better than I was a week ago. Part of that is the fact that after “two disasters”: in West, “Sunday’s race”: was a good step in the right direction. I also felt great skiing around this afternoon. This sport is so much more fun when I have energy.
15k skate at Sovereign on Saturday (could be my current favorite combination of trail/distance/technique), followed up by a skate sprint on Sunday. Then Monday we make the long haul back to Bend. But there’s a lot of perfect skiing to be had before then!
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