Life... and Reflections on a Mediocre Ski Season.

The success of ski seasons is transitory. It is never consistent. One season can be great... landing tricks, no injuries, good crew to ride with, etc. while the proceeding season can be terrible, usually due to the lack of the aforementioned characteristics. That being said, this season was mediocre. In fact, the season really didn't even start until late-February for me. And a couple of these weeks were downtime, due to a couple of injuries, not serious but just annoying enough I couldn't really ski until they had healed. I bruised my ribs in mid-March. That kept me off the snow for a good week. Then, a week away from closing day, I got a concussion which essentially ended my season. I continued to ski, but had to be extra careful and only ski short amounts of time because I started to get super dizzy towards the end of the day. Accomplishments this season; meh. I feel like I regressed from last season. Only around 5, 4 landed, cork 7's this year, not a single 9 (these are the basis for rating my seasons) ... one which resulted in bruised ribs. Anyways, next year... I'm already stoked. It's gonna be a good one. I plan on actually moving to a ski resort, working and skiing all winter... it will hopefully be my first "full" ski season since I went to San Francisco for college, plus the Boise Boyzzzz are due to reunite and winter is as good of time as ever. So fuck it, mediocre season but high hopes for the next one... that, in itself, should last me until next November.

I feel like I haven't really kept up with much people since leaving SF, even though I promised myself I would. As everyone knows, I'm simply terrible at any long-distance communication and I really promised myself I'd make an effort. Fail. I'm starting to miss SF. It's taken a good portion of March to realize it, but since skiing has ended here and I've sunk into a type of post-skiing depression for a week or so (it's a actual disorder, ask any skiier/boarder) and, now, since I have nothing to keep the days filled, it's only intensified. So, hopefully, as soon as I can get some things worked out, I'll be back in SF.