Day 83 | most miserable

Today had to be the most miserable day of the season.  Freezing levels were high and there was nothing but precipitation.  Winds were gusting up to 70kph (or more).  We had over 20 kids in snowboard school, again, lots of lower levels.  Aimee took the fours .... there were three of them.  And I took the fives ....there were three of them also.  We stuck together all day since there wasn't much to teach in the treacherous conditions.

The Roundhouse was a whiteout all day.  The wind gusts had blown all the loose snow so there was nothing but the ice base underneath.  Because the freezing level had risen higher than the Chic Pea, the snow that was on the runs was soggy, wet, heavy, choppy and basically threw you around on your board.  It would hold the snowboard back instead of making it go forward.  Kind of like riding in mud!  Before you reached the bottom of Emerald Chair, the snow that was falling had changed to rain.  We were already soaking wet by the time lunch came around and that was at 11am.

After lunch we all put our wet jackets, gloves, helmets and goggles back on and headed back up to the Roundhouse.  The gondola stopped a few times because of the high winds.  We took two laps and finally I said that I was done with it.  I was wet.  I was cold.  The snow was horrible and I was miserable.  We hit the CLC and spent 45 minutes just chilling out.  We made the most of the day by trying to have as much fun as possible.  The kids were all really cool.  At one point we decided to all dance at the same time as we were snowboarding so there were eight of us boogy'ing and riding.  It was cute.  At the end of the day, we all agreed we had fun with each other but we were all miserable in the conditions.