Wednesday, April 7, 2010

A Warning to Powder Enthusiasts.

ZIP. YOUR. POCKETS... let me explain.

Earlier this week on Tuesday and Wednesday, it PUKED snow. None of us here at the Alpine Campus could believe the monstrosity of these recent spring storms.

I was lucky enough to get out and ride on Tuesday with Corey, Bacon, and my friend Mariah in some of the deepest powder I have ever seen. We ended up cruising all over the mountain, with Mariah showing us some of her favorite tree runs that I have never been on before and that ended up being awesome and still untouched even at 3pm.

It continued snowing through the night and ended up dumping around 10 inches on the top of the mountain, making for another crazy powder day. We started the day on my favorite run Hot Cakes down to the Morningside lift on the backside of the mountain. We had planned to take that lift up and hike even higher to the out of bounds runs, but as we were riding up the lift, we noticed that directly to the right of the lift was untouched deep fresh powder, so needless to say, we rode it.

On the second time through, I had paused my iPod on the lift and forgot to play it again on the run. I also realized when we got on the lift that I had forgot to zip the pocket my iPod was in... and that it had fallen out. I legitimately almost cried when I realized it was gone. About 3/4 of my music is not on my computer and I lost about 4200 songs. We took a couple other runs before I decided I couldn't live with myself if I didn't at least try to find it, so I headed back to Morningside and took the same run a couple more times. Unfortunately I realized there was no hope since there was about 2 ft. of powder on the run, so I sucked it up and gave up the search.

I still love powder and will always ride it but I just wanted to warn the world about what could happen if you do something as simple as forget to zip a pocket, so hopefully this will save someone out there the trouble of losing their stuff. Peace.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hopefully the sun will come out uncovering your IPod and someone will return it - keep checking Lots of Love - see you soon.
Grandma and Grandpa