The trails were pretty scenic - we got to go around a big lake (which i thought i took pictures of but i guess not...). We stopped to eat our packed lunches at the "warming shack" where we met a cool old couple who were cross country skiing enthusiasts. They taught us that back in the day people used to x-cty ski in their Levis . . . this meant that when they fell their Levis dyed some of the snow blue. To this day they call the spots in the snow where you can obviously tell someone had fallen a "sit-mark" (cause it used to look like someone had been sitting in the snow. . . i actually just looked it up it is a "sitzmark"). Pretty cool, huh? Well, between the 4 of us we made our fair share of sitzmarks. But we had a lot of fun. No Major crashes. . .UNTIL. . . Suddenly. . .
Kyle took a spill. He was fine (thank goodness!!). But his rented BYU-I ski boot was another story. The binding broke making it impossible for Kyle to snap into his left ski. We all used our creative juices to try and tie his ski back to his boot - at one point we thought we had it, too. But to no avail - whatever we tried would just slip off when he tried to go again. SO, Kyle had to go the last couple of miles on the BLACK DIAMOND (forgot to mention that earlier...) trail with one ski. Pretty much, he would put his left foot down, which would then sink about knee-deep in snow, and then some how push off so he could glide a little on his right ski. Crazy. But, he made it!! I don't think I would have made it... And at the end of it all Kyle said he wanted to go again! What a trooper. And, as for the boot, the rental place said they weren't going to charge us because the SAME THING had happened a few other times . . . Um, why were the still renting those boots out if they knew they were faulty? . . .
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