The Shape Of Ski’s to come!?!?!
My account of my personal altitude extreme ski descent on MINI-SKI’s..20″ plastic skis intended for, “Toddlers through age 10″…
(see DL; May 2, 2006)
in a word? my adventure/workout yesterday was…
Hih-LAIR-ree-US!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh my Lord Buddha…someone SHOULDA captured my descent on video!…a grown man screeching down a high alpine peak on Toddler’s skis…and living to share it with you!!!!
i can’t stop laughing as i replay yesterday’s adventure in my mind…
that is what WF is all about; FUN and FITNESS!!!!!!
“Every event is subjective:
not what it means, that matters,
but what it means TO YOU!”
– Richard Bach
enjoy…and may this entry put a smile on your face and fun in your fitness pace…
namaste,
coach ilg
the mountain yogi
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Got “Guns” and Lungs? C’mon baby!!! Let’s Get It Done!
Coach in full on Warrior Mode with MiniSkis intact ready for a speed ascent and a personal record mini-ski descent of the Northwest Face of Agassiz Peak…
At “Checkpoint Rock”…only 2 minutes off my running record pace with Pack and ski poles! Feelin’ THE CHI, the HERBS (that’s Fortune Delight and VitaFruit in my water bottle, of course!), and WF TRAINING PAYING OFF once again…feeling, “Hooked Up”, baby!
Snowline: “Logjam Checkpoint #2” reached at just over 34 minutes…still only a couple minutes slower than my running record pace…even stopping to take these pics for you all…however, from here onward? Kahtoola� Time! Crampons on, telescopic ski poles now adjusted to 100cm for climbing up the steep snow…from here it’s another 1,800′ of climbing to the summit ridge all on ice/snow…let’s go! Rocky Mountain Stairmaster…go for the Calf Burn…
…and BURN they do! non-stop, heart rate as high as the Dancing Ravens around and now below me!
my calves; “Though they be small, they are fierce!”
On the summit icefield, i knew i would have to pull the plug on the 12,000’+ ski descent notion…it was way too icy…even for regular metal-edged extreme skis…i would have to descend on Kahtoola’s to about the 11,500′ mark. I am already stoked to make another attempt from the summit ridge when the snow is more melted…
78 minutes to the 12,358′ summit ridge! CRANKING!!!
Summit grimace after Pranayam and Ishvara-Pranidhana Meditation in the wind-torn ridge rock break…
“It’s a go(o)d day to die…so let’s DO THIS THANG!!!!”
HOWWWWLLLLL!!!!!
Mini Ski’s of Fury, baby!!! after surviving a hilariously scary, fun, outrageous descent of the Upper Bowl, i finally came to a stop nearly 1000′ later on the black diamond ski run of ‘White Lightning’ to snap this photo for you and almost falling another 1,000′ in the attempt! the whole workout took 2 hours and 23 minutes! You can travel a lot of adventure when you are Wholistically Fit!!!!
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