Shot Down
The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars’ worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk. ~P.J. O’Rourke, Modern Manners, 1984. One would wonder what the venerable Mr. O’Rourke would have to say about backcountry skiing, wherein one […]
Singetrack. Powder.
Last weekend’s sunshine and singletrack has me anxiously anticipating this: But the recent snowfall, and the convincing potency of a well born powdermony, have me desiderating more of this: Yeah. Life in the Wasatch is difficult. What’s that condescending, and yet awesome saying? Oh, right: my life is better than your vacation.