Colorado Snowboard Blog 10/14/09

Posted by: Dave Berry | Oct 14, 09

Welcome back to the CO Snowblog-thingey! I was planning on bumping up publishing this entry to this past Monday but as you can see I didn't get around to it. See, what happened was I scored this rad Siberian Husky puppy from the Dumb Friends League and he's quickly turning into a hand full. This is what I get for insisting on a puppy, but it's cool. Little dude is going to be rad as soon as he grows a brain. But enough of that fatherly gushing; onto the shred!

If you haven't been paying attention then you don't know that Loveland and A-Basin are both open now. They opened last week, you gaper, so my esteemed roommate and I, with his co-worker/shred buddy and some chick did as Iron Maiden has done before us and ran to the hills last Saturday. What ensued was a pretty typical day for us Daggers up on the hill; we talked mad smack on the scene, we drank too much-oh yeah-and we snowboarded too.

We were instructed by our ride to be ready by 7:45 AM. Actually I think it went "You guys better be fucking ready by 7:45!" No sweat. We're both at work before then five days a week anyway. What happened? Dude was late, but he did bring us breakfast burritos and coffee to cut the breakfast beers that I was drinking, and he stayed sober enough to drive up and back so kudos to him. The target was Loveland and we got there pretty quickly. I guess not too many people are into early-season hessian sessions which is just fine with me. We pulled into the Loveland parking lot and there wasn't too many people up there. I imagine A-Basin was like that as well, if not less populated. My esteemed roommate waxed and did the edges on our boards the night before. I would have done my own but I had to go see Zombieland with this beautiful woman the night before who I've been fruitlessly obsessing over for a while now. I'm glad he took the time to tune us up and I'm glad I saw that flick. Woody Harrelson is the man. Recognize. Anyhow, we knew what we were getting ourselves into: one green run made mostly of artificial snow. Sounds like ass, right? Well let me tell you whipper-snappers out there something you'd better remember: an ass is what you make of it, and we made that ass our bitch. The single run, which the name of I can't remember if it matters, was actually pretty varried. Hell, the good people that work at Loveland even threw in two rails for you jibbers out there, but there wasn't any booters for us heshers to blast. In any event, good show. It was pretty easy to run laps on this one thanks to our fresh tunes and muscle memory from last season. We heshed all we could out of that run before and after our flasks ran dry. Word on the street is that this year is Loveland's earliest opening in 40 years. That means your dad may or may not have seen "the little ski area that could" open this early in his lifetime. I certainly haven't. They were making snow all day despite the sun shining down on us with better weather than what was going on in Denver that day. Loveland loves you so you'd better show her some love or get the hell out of my state.

I'm pinching this one off right here but I've got topics for further blogs to come down the line. Don't worry, I'll make an ass of myself sooner than later.

Shred Hard.

Dave Berry.