as winter break has officially started, i can waste time rambling with a slightly clearer conscious. now faced with the prospect of two whole weeks off of school, the realization is setting in that i have only one semester of high school left. schwing. the switch has been flipped, and skiing is well underway. one race down, still a long ways to go, but that proverbial florescent light bulb is flickering on. triggered in part by the afternoons, spent wandering round the empty loops, fighting back demons through the thickening dusk, and bombing, bleary eyed, down through the stinging cold and the snow following the flickering patches of moonlight.



my favorite though, is the odd morning, after a chilled stutter up 17th, only to set out along a bright loop of zarlengos. effortless double pole through the sun and woods, all silent but the soft swish of ski on snow. following the tracks, zipping along the roller coaster of antelope creek. ah, i do love skiing.