Killington

I have to back track for the first few blogs because my riding season started a little before this blog.

Anyways, my season started January 27th at Killington. I went with the Boston Sports and Ski club. They have a pretty good deal, for $69 dollars, you get a charted bus ride up to a mountain and the ski ticket for that mountain and it runs on Friday, Saturday, and Sundays. Here's the link if you want to check it out yourself www.bssc.com/skiing. I got the bus at Kenmore Sq. at 5:30 in the morning and I slept the whole three hours up to the mountain.

I finally got out on the mountain around ten. Killington is a huge resort and they have 4 different mountains. Since it was my first run of the season I didn't want to start right away in the park. I took a couple of trails just to get the feel of riding again. After a couple of runs I went to the closes park. There were no boxes or rails, just jumps and it was an intermediate park. It had four jumps and a small spine at the end. I stayed in this park all day. I handled the jumps pretty well and by the end of the day I was flying off of them. My best tricks of the day were frontside 180's. I usually did them off the spine but I did it once off a jump and landed it. My day was done by 3:30 and I just sat around in the lodge until the bus left at 4:30.

My next mountain is Bradford.

What it's All About

I've been riding for eight years, and this will be my ninth. I started in the ninth grade on a ski trip that I signed up for myself in school. After nine years I can easily go down the mountain without falling so I wanted to give myself a new challenge and hit the parks for the first time, and thats what this blog is about, my progress in the park, what tricks i can pull off and hope to pull off. I'll tell you what mountains I went to and what I thought of them, and if there are good stories in between I'll tell you about those too.