Day 33 - ice rink

No new snow since Monday and the snow we have is melting fast.  The high in the Alpine today was +7C!  It's still busy with lots of kids in Snow School, especially Adventure Camp.  We had about 40 kids in snowboarding and that included nine Lil Rippers, and of course, I was assigned to Lil Rippers with Penny and Beatrice.

We signed in all nine kids close to 9am and we headed up the gondola to the CLC.  Most of them had a lesson previously so there were only a few who needed to learn how to put their bindings on and off.  We stuck together for the morning but one little guy was turning down the Magic Carpet so we needed to take him down to the Village for a lap.  I volunteered to take him down while Penny and Bea stuck with the other eight at the CLC.

Riding down to the Village is usually a great time waster but today it was like torture.  The entire run was hard packed ice from top to bottom.  There wasn't even any shaved snow on the sides of the run.  I think I sideslipped 90% of the way.  The kid did a great job of turning and by the time we reached the Village, he was exhausted … which is exactly what I was hoping for.