Comments on: Yukon Jack Scoffs at Black Diamonds

By: Moose in the Kitchen » Blog Archive » Crucial Life Updates, Possibly In Order of Importance But I Admit Nothing

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:33:50 +0000

[...] skiing. And I’m very proud to announce that I have accomplished one of my goals for 2010: Get down a black diamond without giving myself a concussion. Not only did I accomplish this goal, I improved upon it. By swooping quickly down multiple black [...]

By: Moose in the Kitchen » Blog Archive » Soon I Will Be Psychic

Moose in the Kitchen » Blog Archive » Soon I Will Be Psychic — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:48:37 +0000

[...] And managed to end up on a date. (Date = 1 hug.) Then I managed to leverage someone I met on the Infamous Weekend o’ Yukon Jack and Unrequited Crushes (did I ever tell you the unrequited crush story?) (probably not) into a [...]

By: mjb

mjb — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:35:57 +0000

So I’d rather snowboard than ski but I’m terribly awful at that. I can do blues if they’re not crowded, but there’s no way a black is happening. I hate looking down and not being able to see the bottom because it’s beneath me. No way.

By: Raven

Raven — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:24:08 +0000

The one time I went snow skiing, I was a teenager and fell face first off the lift, meanwhile my younger brother was going down black diamonds with nary a turn of his skis.

I would like to try again someday but I find it likely that I would once again find myself happily in the lodge in front of a fire only this time I could be drinking scotch instead of hot chocolate

By: pamzella

pamzella — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:13:23 +0000

Alison, thanks for stepping in.

HollyLynne… yes. You Know.

By: jennifer in sf

jennifer in sf — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:43:34 +0000

I don’t even know what all this blue, green, and black stuff means. But I can get behind the hot tub and whiskey parts!

By: thisnewplace

thisnewplace — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:36:08 +0000

Oooooh I love Tahoe. But I SO suck at skiiing.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:59:28 +0000

You should take my ski helmet! I hardly get a chance to use it and it is both warmer and more comfy than a fuzzy hat. And you don’t really get hat hair. I’d like to contribute to a lack of concussion.

By: HollyLynne

HollyLynne — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:15:24 +0000

I’ve never been skiing, but this is a pretty accurate representation of how my snowboarding experiences have gone. I can get down a mountain, but only by applying “the brakes” pretty much the whole way down (which entails digging my heels in and balancing precariously leaning backwards). So, as you can probably imagine, I wind up even more sore after a day of snowboarding HENIOUSLY than my companions do after a day of snowboarding well.

HOT TUBS, indeed!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:36:19 +0000

Black diamonds are not my friend. Although, a friend and I once took a beginner down a short black on accident. She climbed down, poor girl.