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Mar. 29th, 2007 06:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katsmeatCurrently here.
It's a backwater town - if I say a Canadian Thetford, then anybody from Norfolk on my fl will get the idea - that had one one of North Amerca's best regarded ski hills dropped on it, out of the blue, about four years ago.
You can tell they've not gotten used to the idea of being a ski resort - there aren't even any art galleries in town yet - just trucker's bars where the big screen TV's have long ago given up on the idea of ever showing anything other than hockey.
It is a good hill - I know because had a couple of near death experiences today. The last of which was when I went for what I thought was a steepish, but OK, blue run, but which soon turned out not to be a snow covered hillside but a smooth ice-rink inclined at about 40 degrees to the horizontal. Put it this way, if you walked across it, assuming that were possible, you wouldn't leave footprints.
It was an interesting position to be in - I sat there and contemplated if for a while, with the board horizontal and the board's rails digging into the ice just enough to hold me. I knew if I lost my grip, I wouldn't get it back and would wind up hitting the bank of trees at the bottom at 30 or 40 mph.
Both up and down were out so I edged myself to the side of the run, literally an few inches at a time.
Also, at the top of the mountain (8000 and something feet), they have Canada's highest restaurant. I didn't plan on eating there - I assumed I wouldn't be able to afford it. But I did go in and had the highest pee I've ever had without the help of an aircraft.
It's a backwater town - if I say a Canadian Thetford, then anybody from Norfolk on my fl will get the idea - that had one one of North Amerca's best regarded ski hills dropped on it, out of the blue, about four years ago.
You can tell they've not gotten used to the idea of being a ski resort - there aren't even any art galleries in town yet - just trucker's bars where the big screen TV's have long ago given up on the idea of ever showing anything other than hockey.
It is a good hill - I know because had a couple of near death experiences today. The last of which was when I went for what I thought was a steepish, but OK, blue run, but which soon turned out not to be a snow covered hillside but a smooth ice-rink inclined at about 40 degrees to the horizontal. Put it this way, if you walked across it, assuming that were possible, you wouldn't leave footprints.
It was an interesting position to be in - I sat there and contemplated if for a while, with the board horizontal and the board's rails digging into the ice just enough to hold me. I knew if I lost my grip, I wouldn't get it back and would wind up hitting the bank of trees at the bottom at 30 or 40 mph.
Both up and down were out so I edged myself to the side of the run, literally an few inches at a time.
Also, at the top of the mountain (8000 and something feet), they have Canada's highest restaurant. I didn't plan on eating there - I assumed I wouldn't be able to afford it. But I did go in and had the highest pee I've ever had without the help of an aircraft.
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Date: 2007-03-30 09:06 am (UTC)I was wondering where you were.
No trees at 40mph pleasethankyou.