SkiSickness

Following months of getting fat on avos in Hamakua this year I decided to get some cardio on and try skiing again.

Constant seaside views of Whatcom's Skyscraper culminated in the journey, upon seeing @berglr's instagram "opening" the C-D skiway.

How to ~25yo as a ~40yo:
Home aerobics
Sleep at "TH" in converted dump-run van
Wake 3am have tea
Start moving at 4, when the retired generally begin their morning walks
Sunrise break: head-to-toe sunproof clothings
Leisurely fat-burn top out @ noonish, enjoy two burritos on a snowthrone
Try advising young Coloraders to wait for corn-o-clock (they did after losing a ski)
Slay continuous perfect proto-schmoo in far too little time, dat expansive swooping liteness in the belly verging on actual ski sickness
A timeless classic, albeit lacking in the added entertainment of old regulars.

Nice.

What’s the deal with all of these vans!?

skykilo wrote: ↑

Tue May 18, 2021 1:02 am

What’s the deal with all of these vans!?

I too was perplexed to encounter more live-a-vans parked there, a mile short of the TH, on Thursday night, than the total number of skiers or climbers I saw on route(s) the next day.

It would appear that apart from the occasional tru indie dirtbag like myself, the majority of visitors were yuppie guided clients, each of whom had added "single-occupancy campervan" to their list of 100 essentials for a three- or four-day siege that included spending an entire Friday acclimatizing at a 2000 metres base camp. But I guess if they're each paying deserving local guides an extra $300+ a night then it's ok--as long as they carry their extra poops out with them.

Not pictured: an actual "U haul" moving van that someone had evidently rented to drive their shopping list up there (trending)

I might have stayed and kept day-lapping the route it weren't for other engagements.