The Good, the Bad and the Scary

This week-end was ski-fully delicious. I spent both Saturday and Sunday up at the Mt. McIntyre ski trails enjoying yet another nice week-end. On Saturday, I did a nice long 30 km ski in preparation of next week-end's Birkiebeiner ski race.

The ski was fabulous. The weather was great and the views superb. As part of my trek, I put up a sign for the newly named "Mulloy's Meadow", a beautiful stop on the Lower Valley loop that commemorates the 75th birthday of Ken Mulloy. After putting up the sign yesterday, I skiied out the morning with Ken, Beth, George and Christine. We stopped to show Ken his birthday present and enjoyed some coffee, cookies and chocolate before heading back to a huge birthday dinner at Beth's place.

The only bad part of teh ski was the accidental loss of my MP3 player. While skiing along Copper Haul Road, I somehow dropped it out of my jacket pocket. Once I realized it was gone, I turned around, but it was gone. This is the second MP3 player that I've lost in the last 6 months. I think I should just start carrying around an old school ghetto blaster, at least I wouldn't be able to lose it.

The scary part of the trip happened when a dogteam went tearing by me on Copper Haul Road. Don't get me wrong, the dog team driver was completely in control of her puppies. But, it was Starbuck's first time near a team and I had no idea how he would react. Thankfully, he was distracted by his tennis ball, and sat patiently on the side of the track waiting for the team to pass. I had heard horror stories (never corroborated) of dog teams attacking, so I was pleasently surprised that all the dogs stayed completely blood free.

Sierra posted this on Feb 05, 2007 from the outside | | permanent link