first off, there will be none of the shenanigans of the typical closing weekend, since this is a low key journey filled with kid stoke. this was a great way to end another great year at kirkwood. sunshine, great corn, lots of friends, family and fun.
saturday
first we scaled thunder mountain. me with my size 12 collini reversiblurple one piece and 210cm gs race skis mounted with the finest alpine binding ever made
and stu, with his googles
nor sure what this is, but it’s obviously VERY important
then stu left me and i wandered around aimlessly, but mostly diagonally, behind chair 10
and then, out of nowhere, captain zateefah arrived
and he brought the colors
and a battle was fought over the grays
it raged on
but captain zateefah
brought the colors
while this was going on, kirkwood was busy shutting down the lifts. we mosied on down and celebrated the osama raid (which evidently was going on at the time) with some beers and hebrew nationals
then everyone was up for a twilight hike to the red cliffs. this is the second to last day at kirkwood. red cliffs was crawling with people at 7 pm. it reminded me of last july 4th when whole families were hiking around in the rocks skiing. there’s gotta be some way for mountains to recreate that vibe for more of the late spring.
the snowboarder is non-magette (why) monica and they’re grooming the wall
snowskate? check
grab? check
tall can in the air? check
monster in the palm of your hand? hells yeah check!
kendra. and they’re still grooming the wall
noah goes hyooooodge
the captain (kfactor) working hard for the snow skate face shot.
sunday we got there @ 12:30 and headed back behind chair 10 to hang out and play in the snow.
skylyn hittin’ the mini-booter
jasmyn- this is serious business
i told them the key to jumping is to keep the hands forward and smile. she’s got like 3/4 of it down.
there were older kids there gettin’ all spinny and stuff
what, no poles? that’s crazy
this guy was towing the skier in the background up for corn laps, and having some fun on his own.
kids these days
family day
getting set up for the portrait shot above i tried one with the flash, which dropped the shutter speed down to 1/200. came out kind of cool
they suffered a bit on the way out, but i’m in a fartbag carrying their skis
evidently they were holding a pageant or something.
jasmyn wasn’t having any of it. we could hear the yells over at chair 10 at this point. went on for quite a while.
we then slid back in under the sisters and skied down while patrol was setting off their bombs. it was a fun weekend.