20221127 Snowsports Snow Summit
今年年初買了2022-2023雪季的 Ikon Pass。一個禮拜前又去買了Burton 牌子的滑雪板（單板）、捆綁及雪鞋，準備學個新技能。兩個禮拜前山上下大雪，約了一些山友去爬禿頭山。然後，就期待再次下雪可以上山滑雪。這兩個禮拜雖然沒有再度下雪，可是我也等不及要試一試新買的滑雪板。幾天前，發出訊息邀請滑雪同好一起去滑雪。原來有三個人響應，但一個個因為有事而退出。所以，這週日（2022.11.27），我只能單槍匹馬去大熊湖的雪嶺 （Snow Summit ）滑雪。一大清早到了滑雪場，我決定趁著體力比較好先滑單板。雪嶺最長的初級滑雪道叫Miracle Mile，最適合我這種初學單板的人。如果我用雙板滑這個雪道，大概不到3分鐘就下來了。但，我用單板第一次滑下來花了35分鐘！不過，我進步神速。第二次花了16分鐘，摔跤及休息共10次。第三次花了14分半，休息及摔跤共5次。第四次花了20分鐘，休息及摔跤共9次，還有1次被人撞倒。第五次滑下來花了14分鐘，休息及摔跤6次，被人撞倒1次。（以上時間不包括乘坐纜車及下纜車後的準備時間。）這時我已全身酸痛，必須休息了。下午，我改滑雪屐（雙板）。這下子雄風再起，1小時就能上下6趟。
Early this year, I bought the 2022-2023 season Ikon Pass. A week ago, I bought the Burton snowboard, bindings and boots preparing for learning a new skill. It snowed 2 weeks ago and I invited some hiker friends to hike Mt. Baldy. After that, I was expecting more snow storm so that I could go skiing/snowboarding. Though, it didn’t snow in the past 2 weeks, I could not wait to try out the newly bought snowboard. Few days ago, I sent out invitations to some snow-sports friends to join me to ski/snowboard at Snow Summit on 11/27/2022, Sunday. 3 of them accepted my invitation, but backed out one by one for different reasons. Therefore, I could only go alone. I arrived Snow Summit very early in the morning, and decided to snowboard first while I had the best stamina. The longest beginner’s run in Snow Summit is Miracle Mile, which is best suited for a beginning boarder like me. It would have taken me less than 3 minutes to go down the run if I skied. However, it took me 35 minutes to go down by board. Nevertheless, I improved quickly. It took me 16 minutes with 10 rests and falls for the 2nd run, 14.5 minutes with 5 rests and falls for the 3rd run, 20 minutes with 9 rests and falls plus 1 fall caused by being hit by another boarder for the 4th run, and 14 minutes with 6 rests and falls plus 1 hit by another boarder for the 5th run. (These run times do not include the times for taking the lift up and the preparation after getting off the lift.) At this time, my body was sore all over and had to take a long break. In the afternoon, I switched to skis. Now, I was able to show off my competency on the snow — 6 up and down runs in a hour!
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