Solitude

Reported by John on Saturday December 03, 2011
When: 
Fri, 12/02/2011
Where: 
Solitude
State / Province: 
Utah
Who: 
Myself and Forrest
Temperature: 
32F
Conditions: 

Sunny and fast.

I met up with Forrest in the bottom of BCC parking lot. We carpooled up to Soli, strapped-in and had a way fun mini-shred session of high speed lappers, butters and 180s. We still need 3-8 feet of snow to make it just right.

Our day was spent mocking runs and slashing turns... which almost got my pass pulled by some Euro-dick head of ski school. Patrol was way cool, I'll leave at this.

Forrest and I found little lips and ledges to Cab and ollie off until we went to aprés at The Flying Squirrel which was closed, so we ended up going to Kimi's. Kimi was in the bar in tears... wow, a weird day indeed. We had some lunch and were out for more laps.

Good day, weird day-fun day.

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Rides at Used to be the Canyons until they turned into Disneyland. Now, it's Solitude and White Pine Canyon.
Board(s): Capita, NS, Illuminati are all fun to ride.
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