Day 207 total for this season with 195 being lift service, as of writing this May 19. It feels good. Hiking is now pretty easy (12 hiking days in, it should be). Though I don’t really want to do it […]
Category: Altitude Sickness
Skiing every day as long as possible
Two hundred days. That is how many days, as of this writing, that I have skied this year. Of those days, 192 were lift service, and eight were uphill on Superstar. Last year it took me until June 4 to […]
It’s boot-hiking season
Boot-hiking season is here! As some of you may or may not know, boot hiking season is one of my favorite times in Killington. When everyone else is getting out their lawn chairs and firing up the grill, I am […]
186 days on snow and counting, plus my tuba epiphany
As of the submission of this article, I have skied 186 days this year at Killington, already more than my previous very respectable year where I skied nearly every operating day (and we haven’t even hit May yet). They did […]
From unwashed gym socks of a teenager to my ski boots: stenches of a reformed slob
Remember those socks that sat all year in your high school gym locker? Calcified, petrified with sweat, they felt like sandpaper putting them on; they smelled like a kimchi factory staffed by gangrenous skunks. Had your mother known that they […]
Opening up a nerve gap
So now I have some thinking to do. As I mentioned before, the day after the cortisone shot I was pain free. In the week after I have been in more pain than I was before the shot. They say […]
Extreme lengths to avoiding “fusing it”
When I was a kid, I never woke up in the morning and said, “When I grow up, I want to have a needle in my spine.” Of course I also never said, “When I grow up, I want to […]
Guinea Pig emergency
I have said a lot of mean things about my Guinea pig Pip (“The Impaler”). To be fair, he has deserved most of it over the past year and a half since I rescued him. But also to be fair, […]
Comedy, Ambien and the English Channel
So the SnowPlow comedy contest at the Outback was fun. I broke all my rules, went in with new material (I usually rehearse myself silly), and engaged in filthy blue comedy (I am usually a clean comic, but contests are […]
Making lemonade when life gives you (lots of) lemons
I have been sitting here, pondering all of the ways life goes wrong. I have been thinking of all of the things that have happened to me, dozens of injuries, dozens of broken bones (ostensibly more than a dozen broken […]