Colorado

colorado pics are up: click me
videos also exist! videos here

notable moments:
- neil gashes lip
- assaf embraces a tree between his legs, nearly at the crotch
- anton nearly smacks stas in the face with his board
- assaf jumps into a stream
- roma jumps into a stream
- i fall with my board stuck between two trees and my head downhill from them
- our connecting flight is cancelled so we get another day. anton gets us 3 rooms with a king-sized bed in each
- my bindings break, assaf's skis are destroyed (oh man, need pic!). riding continues

coloradans or whatever they call themselves are suprisingly easy to agitate. perhaps it's all the tourists disturbing their "local" culture. we managed to throw a liquor store manager into a fit over selling loose bottles of beer, a member of the ski patrol stalks assaf and stas on our last run, saying "would you mind going down a little faster", a restaurant manager berates a waiter for allowing us to order dinner 2 minutes before closing time, and a group of testy local patrons in a sushi restaurant drives the waitress to tears.

copper mountain isn't very exciting. the locals tout its laid-back attitude (questionable) and unexplored backcountry (not very much). breckenridge is splendid when it snows. it snowed every day we were there. 10/10 on my favourites, the tree runs: the burn, windows 1 & 2. breck's base elevation is 9600 feet and its vertical rise is nearly 4000 feet. the first day we all had headaches. in the videos you can hear me panting for air. by the time we left our bodies had only begun to acclimate to the elevation, but i can't wait to take a 3+ mile run at sea level again to see if there is a difference.

i managed to do my first 180s. the board drags the snow but still it is done! it is time to buy a board.

natural selection

the theme of the day is natural selection. apparently new york city lawmakers are considering passing a law that bans people from crossing streets while plugging their ears with headphones. clicky just when you thought natural selection was back to take care of its dirty business. what are they going to ban next? those fuzzy hoods that act like blinders to obscure vision? fat people from crossing the street? are we going to have to all cross the street at the same pace? if the city really wants money, it should be collecting on the fines that are already in place: fines for drivers who run red lights (this happens at every single crosswalk, at every single light), for speeding, for taxis that park at bus stops, for pedestrians that jaywalk or cross the street after the stop signal appears. stupid will always do as stupid is. looking both ways before stepping out onto the street is something every kid learns once he starts walking. let natural selection do its job!

more thoughts on natural selection:
natural selection is disrupted by the ratio of women(no not womyn):men being >1. as long as there are more women than men, and presuming that an equal percentage of men and women want to breed, there will always be enough wombs to accept loser sperm.
1-considering that i find most women petty, illogical, and useless anyway, we should let them die of skin cancer (due to excessive tanning), obesity, lung cancer (due to smoking), depression that cannot be clinically diagnosed, the list continues. all scientific research of this nature should cease immediately. in addition, any woman requiring a >3 karat diamond engagement ring, displaying excessive pettiness, or lacking a degree of logic (adjustable yearly by the government, aka Big Brother) should be shot on sight.
2-this will bring the ratio to <1. following which the surviving men (the rest will have died due to those indulgences for which we no longer treat) will have to compete for the remaining women. men found prancing around in speedos will be summarily rejected for better mates and have to learn to put it into sheep for the rest of their days. men who fail to submit timely child support payment will not get second chances in another womb.

"it's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it"