Season 24-25: Day 28

After working on Saturday and Sunday, I was exhausted. The driving and the waking up earlier started to get to me. I planned on taking MLK off to relax and recharge, but when your son wanted to go skiing and snowboarding with me, I couldn’t disappoint him.

Xuân and I decided to go to Roundtop so he could meet up with his cousins. I also wanted to revisit Gunbarrel, which is the steepest double-black-diamond slope in Pennsylvania. It hadn’t opened in the last couple of years. I used to ski down this slope many times.

We kicked off snowboarding. Xuân progress from green to blue to black. We did four runs and it was lunch time. We met up with my brother-in-law and his two boys. I switched to skis because I missed skiing. I had been snowboarding quite a bit. We did a few more runs on the blue and black slopes.

My nephew and I wanted to go to the back side to ride Gunbarrel; therefore, Xuân switched to skiing as well. We tested out Ramrod, which is also a double-black-diamond slope, first. Although there were some bare spots, Ramrod had some snow to grip our skis on.

Gunbarrel was steeper and slippier. There were lots of bare spots. Xuân and his cousin made about a quarter of the way and they both went down. I traversed to the icy spot right at the top and slid down all the way down. Most skiers and snowboarders fell as well; therefore, I didn’t feel too embarrassed.

I am going to wait until Gunbarrel get more snow before would try it again. Nevertheless, we had a great time.