After taking nearly two months off from snowboarding, I made it back out on the slopes yesterday.  It has been hard for me to leave the house on the weekends if Trey isn’t coming with me.  But I finally decided that I had to put that aside if I was going to spend any more days on the slopes.  Fortunately if I get up early enough and get out on the mountain right away, I can typically be back in the early to mid-afternoon, so the whole day is not lost.

Anyway, I headed up to Arapahoe Basin with my friends Ken and Rob, two guys that I have spent nearly all prior days of this season with.  We decided to try A-Basin since it was a holiday weekend, and we hoped it would be the least crowded of the resorts on our passes.  This seemed to work in our favor as we never encountered more than a five-minute wait in lift lines.  We were able to get our ten runs in for the day by 12:30, including a couple of runs on the East Wall. This allowed me to be back at home by 2 so I could hang with Trey for the rest of the day.

For the second time this season, I took the Garmin Forerunner 305 on the slopes with me.  The first time I had mixed results, mostly due to inadvertent pressing of the stop button.  I had much more luck yesterday after placing the watch on top of as many as my layers as possible.  This way I could watch it closer and I was able to reduce the accidental button pressing to only one occurence.  If I am even more careful in the future, I will be able to graph out my tracks even better.  Either way, yesterdays adventures can be seen below.