electric relaxation

I spent this past weekend at the Schweizer ski resort in Idaho with Lisa, Matt and Vanessa. It was incredible. The resort is massive; it felt twice as big as Tahoe and half as crowded.

My personal on-board highlights included nailing a couple of real jumps -  I think I got close to thirty inches of air on the biggest one I landed, which isn’t much but it’s a start – and for extra bonus points, I tried my first rail slide. It was a fat pipe, maybe seven or eight inches in diameter, and there was no need to jump onto it, so it was definitely beginner friendly. I stayed on it for maybe three quarters of a second at most. But it felt pretty good. I also got a lot more comfortable with black and double black diamond runs, though I think a lot of that was mostly taking advantage of the fact that the snow was soft and plentiful.

Matt Ginzton and his folks generously accomodated us for the duration of the trip, so we had very comfy beds in their beautiful new house in Matt’s home town of Sandpoint, Idaho. Turns out Sandpoint is basically right at the bottom of Schweitzer. You can basically see the resort from Matt’s house, which goes a long way towards explaining why Matt’s a fucking ninja scientist on his board.

Almost forgot – Matt also tried to teach me how to do a 180. His method of instruction pretty much consisted of him busting effortless 180s in my face and then insisting that I follow suite. Surprisingly, it eventually worked. I was able to nail a frontside 180 off a small hop.