Destination Vancouver

I've been slowly making my way across the country to Vancouver, where I'll arrive on Thursday, Feb 11 to meet up with the boyz and pick up the RV. So far I've only made it to Denver. On Saturday night my flight was canceled and I spent the night in the terminal at Charlotte. Around midnight US Airways tried to give me a hotel voucher, but since I was re booked on the 7 AM I didn't even feel like riding a shuttle to an airport hotel and sleeping for like four hours or whatever, so I just unrolled my pad in the baggage claim and crashed for a few hours.

Even though the flight was canceled I still rode Copper on Superbowl Sunday. That's why I stopped in Denver, to get my board and ride a bit. After the plane touched down at DIA @ 9:30 AM I hustled up the hill and made Copper by noon or whatever (maybe a bit later). The snow wasn't that great, but the resort was pretty empty for a Sunday, cuz everybody was watching football on HD flat screen TVs and pigging out. It felt like a weekday, there weren't any lines, I had the pipe and the jumps to myself, and the I-70 traffic back to Denver was mellow too, so it was good. At a big resort like Copper the lifts are fast, so even if you only get 3 hours you can still get a lot of runs and lots of vertical.

The U.S. Snowboarding Team won't need to feel threatened by my presence in Vancouver though. That was my first day of the season and it definitely took a few runs to get my form back and get warmed up. Every season I forget how to ride switch and I have to start from scratch! Maybe I'll go again tomorrow, and then I'm flying to Seattle on Wednesday morning, from where I'll bus over the border to Canada. I'll make Vancouver eventually, I know it! :)