This is a funny that could have been tragic. It will hit home to those of you who ski The CAN regularly. ....Toby, you'll laugh. I'm glad that I can.
The Nines will open today. Grande and Deschutes opened this morning. While waiting for The Nines to open, I took a few laps on the 37North (Deschutes) side of Grande. The snow was $$$. Fourth lap I decided to enter Grande Bowl from the skiers right (Deschutes run-off). I tried to be very careful to enter the bowl under the cliff. I failed. The only lines, other than mine were patroller lines. Turns out that I was at the entrance of the bowl right at the top and at the extreme skier's right of the cliff. There was virgin soon on it, and I did not realize that it was the cliff. Started my decent, immediately scraped rock, tried to make a left turn, lost my balance, bounced off the cliff, prematurely double ejaculated, lost both skis and a pole, and tomahawked and came to a rest about 30' below the cliff. No broken bones, but sore as FUCK!. The snow is deep, so I had to slide, on my ass, all the way down Grande and walk the Red Pine Road flat to the Patrol station at the Gonjola.
The patrollers found one ski. Tomorrow, I will go up and look for the other. This is the one time that I am happy that there is no snow in the forecast for the next couple of days.
If anyone is there and comes across a Kästle MX98, kindly pick it up and give me a shout.
Look, now I have 3 ass cheeks. This will be black and blue in a couple of hours.
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