My friend Mike took me to Snowbird today to teach me to board on the toe edge. I am improving slowly but I had some fantastic wipeouts. ALWAYS WEAR A HELMET. I am sure that at least one of my better wipeouts could have been a concussion without it.
On the lift on our way up to one of the longer runs the cloud cover that had turned the first half of our run into 200ft visibility started to clear, leaving the rocky peaks of the surrounding mountains visible. The air was CLEAN and cold and the mountains looked so dominating. It was comfortable. It was cathartic. I feel like I've had a particularly bad end of the previous year and this helped me forget it. Some people are drawn to the oceans and seas, some to the wide open flatlands. I am a mountain lover. Wherever I end up in this life it will be in the shadow of a mountain.
Its easy to wonder why I stay in Utah. We are second only to Islamic cultures in our homogeneous religious saturation. It makes life hard and it makes reverse discrimination easy, but I can stand up for my own beliefs now. I'm not letting the crazy people take away my mountains.
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