The Sunday Hike

This was actually not a hike as much as it was skiiing.

Last Sunday we decided to skip church (Our Lady of Divine Sleeping In) and go and worship the slopes of Mt. Hood instead. We went to a ski resort that we hadn't gone to yet: Timberline. Anybody seen the movie "The Shining"? Well the outside shots of the resort are actually shots of Timberline resort. It was kind of cool, kind of creepy.

Timberline was a pretty amazing ski resort. Beats the hell out of Mt. Hood Meadows, but is more expensive than Mt. Hood "Ski Bowl". The snow was amazing. For those of you who remember the blog post about my first ski trip, you'll remember that I had a great time, but I was dog tired and very frustrated at the end of the day, and missed about 2 hours of skiing because of it. This time (partially due to the great ski conditions, and partially due to all of the excersize that my trainer has me doing) I did not get frustrated at all.

I tried the bunny hill 3-4 times at first... no problems, fell one time. Then I decided to go for the "green". So we found one green trail where we accidently took a wrong turn and ended up on another much-harder green trail instead. Didn't fall once. I felt mostly in control, zooming around down the hills. Later in the day Molly and Linze decided to leave me and Josh Y. to ourselves on the greens to try some "blue" runs. They came back and told us they we're pretty easy. I was feeling pretty confident because I was only falling down maybe once every-other run, and not really getting hurt and not terribly tired. So Josh and I decided to go for it. Now, I'm not going to lie here. I did 4 blue runs. The first time I fell once on the steepest part, but no issues for the rest of the run. The second time, I felt myself losing control, so I parked myself in the snow (a controlled fall, so to speak). The third time I fell once, but just because my one of my ski's hit a small patch of ice when I was going super slow.... after that it was pretty much downhill, though. That last run I was getting very tired, so I fell like 3 times.

All in all, for being my second time skiing, I think I did awesome. I probably didn't look very coordinated, but I felt in control most of the time. I'm looking forward to going at least one more time before the season is up!

Check out these pictures and videos of our ski trip!

Timberline ski trip (Mt. Hood)