Day 41 | broken binding means snowmobile ride

Two new girls showed up for Club today as level fours.  Lauren added them to her class card.  Once again we all took a run together first thing in the morning.  Jose said the conditions up top were really windy but the groomers below mid-station were awesome.  So we decided to lap mid-station til lunch.  It didn't take us long to realize the new girls are NOT level fours (surprise, surprise) but they are actually high level twos.

It snowed all day today and the snow was amazing ... even with the gusting winds up top.  We decided to ride up the Garbanzo Chair before lunch.  When we all reached the top, Ella noticed her binding was broken and the strap that holds her foot down was missing.  There was no way she could snowboard down with one binding so I called Patrol to give her a snowmobile ride.  Lauren took the rest of my class and headed back to the CLC for lunch.  Ella and I waited for Patrol in the lifty's hut.  Once Patrol arrived, we were able to ride his snowmobile up to the Roundhouse where we downloaded to the CLC, ate some lunch, and fixed her binding with a spare part off a rental.  

Everything was back to normal by the afternoon and we spent the rest of our day shredding the gnar.  I'm going to try and move the two new girls into a lower level class next weekend.  I'm not sure how it will work out but I'm guessing I will end with them in my class and I will have to deal with the split for the rest of the season.  Fingers crossed that doesn't happen.