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Broke-my-back Mountain

Well, almost, that is. I did not actually break my back, nor did I break anything, except maybe my ego a little. Hubby and I came back from our annual ski trip late Monday night - 3 days in Lake Tahoe skiing at Heavenly Mountain. It was fun, but painful at the same time. Scott decided to challenge a double-black diamond trail and dragged me along. At the end of a long day of skiing. When we were both extremely tired. And even though we are only intermediate-level skiers. Our friend, Jim, estimated that in the battle of me versus the mountain, I was only winning about 40% of the time.

If it wasn't for my Gumby-like flexibility, the mountain would definitely have kicked my ass, hands down.

My somewhat uncommon level of flexibility has had the tendency to both horrify and awe fellow skiers at the same time. At one point during my painful fall down the double black diamond, I managed to get my right leg stuck in a figure four position under my left leg with both skis firmly planted in the snow - my right ski was heel-side down with me lying on my stomach. A nice stranger who stopped to help me get out of my ski (there was no way I could unpretzel myself with my skis on) was shocked that I was okay - he was sure I had blown out my knee. Hell, I was shocked that I was okay. Just goes to show you what years of yoga during elementary school will do for you.

While I had fun at Heavenly (and the snow was wonderful), I would not recommend it to other skiers. The trails were poorly designed - I found myself pondering many times why I was having to cross-country ski rather than downhill ski - and the lifts were slow. The staff at Heavenly were not the friendliest. And the mountain lodges were not great. At least the copious amounts of alcohol and snow made up for it. Along with the Advil...

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