Tahoe weekend update part 1

Ok, so I'm finally getting around to my tahoe weekend. My friend Will invited me up to tahoe, though I don't know any of the people heading up. Most of the peeps are heading up friday night, hitting the slopes on both saturday and sunday, and coming back on monday. I can't do two days of boarding, nor take the time off on monday, so my plan was to go up on friday and head back on sunday. Will said that he had a friend B that might want to carpool up with me. So we had a IM conference and we both confirmed that we didn't want to ski on sunday, and we both could leave on friday.

So I meet B for the first time on Friday (Hmm, she looks a bit familiar, but I've never met her before), and we head off to tahoe in my evo with my snowboard and her skis in the back seat. We chat it up quite a bit on the drive up, making the drive alot shorter, although we left late, so we didn't arrive till around midnight. We met the rest of the group, a couple Tony and Liana, Alex, and Liz. Unfortunately Wenda who set the whole trip up couldn't make it because she had a hole in her butt (more on that later).

We talk a bit, hang out, and we made our sleeping arrangements. I got to bunk up with Will in the bear room, it's a bear themed room with a giant bed that's so high, you need a step stool to get up in, or in my case I just jump onto the bed. Unfortunately Will snores, so my nights sleep wasn't so restful.

We hit the Sierra At Tahoe the next morning. The snow was the consistency of frozen lemonade, all slushy and very sticky. It was so sticky that it felt like I was dragging an anchor behind me. It was so sticky that I could go down the black diamonds almost straight without going too fast. So sticky that my legs were getting sore and tired because I had to lean back to keep from falling forward because the board was slowing down, but I wasn't. But the weather was really nice, It was really hot, and all I wore was a t-shirt and my ski jacket.

By the end of the day we were so tired we all started wiping out because we were all too tired. I ate it a couple of times pretty good, and ended up sliding down my back and doing a endo so I can get the board pointing downhill to stop sliding. At the end of the day, we happend to have stopped on a run, and a bunch of guys decided to slide down the hill on their bellies like penguins. That looked pretty fun, if it wasn't for the fact that they were soaked at the end.

Ok, part 2 tomorrow, as I'm pretty tired right now. I've been waking up early and staying late at work this week. And it gets complicated, I may need to draw a diagram.