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Pulled parts from a pair of medium bindings that i had to fix the large bindings on my board. Felt weird but good to have a little tighter binding setup. Seth and i had a large school group to teach in the afternoon. Seth took the 8 kids who'd snowboarded before, i took the 13 who hadn't. They all did pretty well overall.
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Snow! I had a 3-hour private scheduled but at 8:23 AM (just before i checked in for the day) it got changed to Saturday. I took a couple runs in the super heavy wet snow, then bailed out at 10:30.
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I had an 8:30 private scheduled, but they wanted to extend to two hours, so Shannon took it since i had a 9:30. The 9:30 private was with a mom and her two kids for three hours. The kids got a little impatient since the mom was going slower, but they were all about level 3. Had a lunch break, then a 2-hour private with a kid who was from Pennsylvania and came up here just to ride halfpipe. We took a lot of pipe runs and he got better.
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8:30 private with a man who could slide on his heel edge, but not his toe edge. I got him connecting turns in an hour. Then i had three hours with two brothers who wanted to do park & pipe, but the park on Lower Tomahawk was closed for the first couple hours and there was a competion going on in the halfpipe. We got some laps in on other stuff though. After that i had one hour with a man who was a pretty good rider and just wanted to improve his technique a little. Following that i was supposed to run a clinic, but no one showed, so i tagged along on Peter's ski clinic for a run, then bailed out and went home.
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I rode with Anna & Megan over to Jackson Gore, but they ended up riding for the day with Matt. I took some of the JG instructors out for a halfpipe clinic. There was a couple inches of fresh snow and the carving was smooth. After the clinic, i left for the day.
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My back, which had been hurting for a week, still hurt, so i called up a physical therapy place and managed to get an appointment in the morning. The therapist worked on the knot on my back and told me to try to sit with better posture.
Winter league ultimate: We played the Black team (early game, with new shirts, but without five players) and managed to keep it close, losing 28-24. I'd spent a while emailing back and forth with UberPrints trying to convince them that my misprinted shirts were their fault. The text "WHITE" was supposed to be white, outlined gray. They finally admitted that their designer had changed it by mistake.
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Five snowboard instructors from Blue Mountain in Pennsylvania arrived to spend a couple nights at my house while taking a halfpipe clinic at Okemo.
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The forecast was for 7-10 inches of snow overnight, but there was over two feet at Okemo. I ended up with no lessons, so did a lot of riding through very deep powder! My boarders cooked dinner for all of us.
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Very busy at Okemo for a Friday. I had the black-diamond-level all-day kids group, which was only Anna, so we rode a lot of bumps, trees, halfpipe, and powder. I was goofing around on the T-bar at one point and completely biffed it, having to let go and go catch another pull. Oops.
Three of the five guests asked to stay one extra night, so they came over after riding, but then decided to head on up to another place near Killington, where they're going to ride.
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One-hour private first thing with two level-1 adults, then a 1-hour private with a man who just wanted to get better overall, then two hours of nothing, then a 1-hour private with a 12-year-old girl who wanted to get better at park and pipe (she wanted to be the next Chloe Kim). I finished that lesson right on time and slid into line-up to find out that my 1:30 private was over at Jackson Gore (misbooking) and they had no one over there who could teach it, so i hustled over to meet a 15-year-old girl who wanted to ride halfpipe (she wanted to be the next Chloe Kim).
Three days of hard riding and my legs were jello.
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The only things on my schedule this morning were an 8:30 private for one hour and the afternoon clinic. The dad of the kid that i had in the private decided to extend for an hour, then i picked up a split from Eliza's yellow group lesson until noon, then i had a 12:30 private and no one showed up to pick the kid up at 1:30 so i was late getting over to the clinic, but was happy to discover that it was a halfpipe clinic, not, as i'd thought, a trees clinic.
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I rode with Megan and Anna over to Jackson Gore, but they were scheduled to be with Matt for the day and i had one blue-level kid who was pretty decent and wanted to do a couple of bump runs, which was kinda exhausting.
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Physical therapy session. She really worked the knot in my back. No winter league.
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It's Canadian Week at Okemo. I had one girl in the all-day Blue-level lesson. We did a lot of powdery bump runs. In the afternoon we picked up three more kids, but two of them were really Green-level, so Tom took them and i rode with Virginia and Alexa. Alexa remembered me from the year before and even remembered the name of the heroine of the book that i'm writing!
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I had the all-day Blue-level group again, this time with Virginia for half-day and Alexa and Bianca all day. We explored some tree runs.
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Started the day with a 1-hour private with Alex, who i've taught a bunch of times. Nothing at 9:30, then a 2-hour private at 10:30 with a level-2 kid. I spent my lunch hour hanging out with Jen Hartigan who was visiting from New Jersey, then had a 2-hour private at 1:30 with a level 5 teenager.
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I was feeling pretty exhausted and the only thing on my schedule was a 2-hour private at 8:30, so i was hoping that that was gonna be it. The guest was a 7-year-old—his second day snowboarding. He wanted to go straight and fast so we took a lot of runs on the magic carpet. When that was over, i found that i had a 3-hour private with a 13-year-old who was a good rider and wanted to do park, pipe, bumps, and trees. That kinda wore me out and after i dropped him off at Jackson Gore, i grabbed a waffle and headed over to Solitude to run a tree clinic with Nate, Wayne, Austin, and Isa. I thought i'd be completely dead, but riding with peers perked me up a little bit.
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Rode with Anna & Megan over to Jackson Gore, but once again they were scheduled with Matt. I had one woman in the adult Green-level group. She was a little afraid of using her toe edge, but started turning and was connecting turns by the end of the lesson. After that i asked if i could go home and was told that i could, so i did. Very late that night, Mark and Isaiah arrived for a ski vacation.
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Physical therapy session. More work on my back, but it wasn't as sore afterwards this time. We played the early game at winter league that evening and beat the Purple team 38-32. I got scored on a bunch, but got a D and had a few nice throws to Emily.
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The snow in the trees is still good, amazingly. I rode through some tree trails on the way to Jackson Gore in the morning. I didn't get a lesson, so found Isaiah and Mark and did some runs with them until lunch. No lessons in the afternoon either, so went home.
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Slid into Jackson Gore and found out that i was scheduled for the all-day black-level group, but then i was pleasantly surprised to see that my one student was Anna! We rode the pipe all day and she almost got out of it a few times.
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Took a lap through the halfpipe after the safety meeting, then decided to do a second lap. I got a little off-balance coming off the toe wall and slid out on my heel edge on the opposite wall. In that rather mellow fall, i reinjured a muscle tear in my groin, which was a little painful all day. I taught a morning group (can't remember what level), then i had a 1-hour private with a 19-year-old who wanted to ride trees and bumps. We did a little tour of off-piste areas and the park & pipe. I came in to afternoon group line-up five minutes late and all the lessons had been covered, so i went in to Ski Patrol and had the nurse look at my groin muscle.
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I taught a morning group of one level-4 adult and got her turning on toe edge, then i had lunch, then ran the last snowboard clinic of the season with George, Stefan, Austin, Katie, and Adeline. We mostly rode trees, bumps, and halfpipe.
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Rode with Megan and Anna all day—their last lesson of the season. They seemed a little tired, but we explored some tree runs and did laps through the park and pipe. I had made some "certifactes of completion"" for them, which their mom gave them at the end of the day.
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Winter league. Beat the Chameleon team in a late game 40-31.
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Took my FJ in for its 70,000 mile service. While it was being worked on, i rode my unicycle over to the mall for a physical therapy session. The mall is even more deserted now that K-Mart is about to close.
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Celeste and i taught 8 kids from a career-day schoolgroup for a couple hours. While i was waiting around for that, i rented a pair of skis and took a bunch of runs below the A/B Quad lifts. I was starting to get a little better at skiing.
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I had a 2-hour request private with a 16-year-old. I didn't know him, but i'd been recommended by Tim Carbone, one of the long-time ski instructors at Okemo. No afternoon lessons, so got a show-up pay and went home.
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Snow was frozen solid this morning, but softened up in the unbroken sunshine. I had a 1-hour private with Alex, then a morning group of one level-1 kid. Nothing in the afternoon.
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