Snow, Rain, and of course, a little Blood

As typical when Aimee and I are left to our own devices, we spend the night before drinking beer until 1 am then drag ourselves kicking and screaming out of bed to do something ill advised. Today it was skiing in the rain. After trying to rehydrate quickly this morning, we headed up to Carson Pass in hopes that the weather would hold. It did for a minute. We began our skin up in shorts and t-shirts. I love spring skiing! The snow at the parking lot was so sun cupped and full of pine needles it was much like running a little obstacle course on your skis. Fortunately it got better as we got higher. But then dark clouds started to roll in and the temperature dropped about 20 degrees. It started snowing. Aimee was still in shorts. As the snow continued to fall harder, we ascended to the top of the ridge and scoped out our very soft line. Aimee had made the unfortunate mistake of not having full zip ski pants and therefor had to ski the run in board shorts. Neat. She managed t0 mostly avoid catastrophe on the first run. It was the second one that left red marks in the snow. But you always get extra points at the end of the day when you're bloody. After two laps, we decided that with her knees creating a haz mat site in the snow and my myocardial contusion (Aimee diagnosed me) that I'm still apparently suffering from after my little bike debacle, we should head out and take a nap. As we got to the CR-V, there was a flash of lightning, a crack of thunder, and we sat on the tailgate with our turkey wraps and watched the first spring thunderstorm rolling in over the High Sierra. It doesn't get much better than snow, rain, and of course, a little blood.

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