A Typical Day with the “Dawn Patrol”
Last season the original trailboss convinced me to spend a few runs with his group of friends, all of them locals who knew me. I agreed and since then have thoroughly enjoyed skiing with them every weekend I am up there. They are an interesting bunch to say the least. I’ve kept things pretty low profile, because if word got out about how much fun we have, then the Ginn Company might charge people to join us for the “real” Burke experience. :wink:
So what do we do?
Well, the original trailboss gets up at the crack of dawn and secures premium parking.
This spring he will be driving a new RV for our tailgate parties, so we figure he will have to get there earlier. We’ve been trying to convince him and Becky to use it as slopeside lodging. It has not gone very far.
Me being the young guy sleeps in until 7:15 or so and then gets up there to join them. We rendezvous in the usual place at the usual time…right before heading out for first tracks and sometimes first chair.
Well, we rely on the original trailboss to guide us. He loves fresh corduroy:
If it wasn’t for him, we’d be lost and then they’d have to rely on me because as Matt says, we have two “Trailboss’s.” I am happy to let him lead, because I might get some flack for taking them down stuff like this:
So we take some spins…we let Danny hotdog around. He’s a great skier, and he is “our hero.”
And when Danny is not ripping it up, the original trailboss or Dave can burn the corduroy:
People might make fun of these folks saying that they are old, but they ski really fast…so fast that this is usually all you see of Danny. He thinks it’s his best side:
So we take usually three or four runs before we have to go in and warm up. During the runs, we regroup and share some jokes or discuss the ski conditions. The truth is we are trying to be considerate and let other people try the snow before we tear it up too much.
Now we have a number of interesting personalities who appear every week. There’s this guy Matt he claims to sell heavy equipment and carbon credits during the week and plays with his grandkids the rest of the time. We know that he really skis during that time. At any rate, he and his wife Mary are great skiers and great folks.
But I digress. We ski those runs before going in for hot chocolate and a nice break. Some more clowning around happens. Then usually, the original trailboss will end the break by asking that “we all rise,” and we head back out to ski some more runs.
Every once in a while the original trailboss will push the limits for the group…and we will charge down something different such as Lower Doug’s Drop. We make sure that everyone makes it out in one piece or at least alive. The point is to have fun and we do a good job at that. Sometimes we get some skiing in…
Last season the original trailboss convinced me to spend a few runs with his group of friends, all of them locals who knew me. I agreed and since then have thoroughly enjoyed skiing with them every weekend I am up there. They are an interesting bunch to say the least. I’ve kept things pretty low profile, because if word got out about how much fun we have, then the Ginn Company might charge people to join us for the “real” Burke experience. :wink:
So what do we do?
Well, the original trailboss gets up at the crack of dawn and secures premium parking.
This spring he will be driving a new RV for our tailgate parties, so we figure he will have to get there earlier. We’ve been trying to convince him and Becky to use it as slopeside lodging. It has not gone very far.
Me being the young guy sleeps in until 7:15 or so and then gets up there to join them. We rendezvous in the usual place at the usual time…right before heading out for first tracks and sometimes first chair.
Well, we rely on the original trailboss to guide us. He loves fresh corduroy:
If it wasn’t for him, we’d be lost and then they’d have to rely on me because as Matt says, we have two “Trailboss’s.” I am happy to let him lead, because I might get some flack for taking them down stuff like this:
So we take some spins…we let Danny hotdog around. He’s a great skier, and he is “our hero.”
And when Danny is not ripping it up, the original trailboss or Dave can burn the corduroy:
People might make fun of these folks saying that they are old, but they ski really fast…so fast that this is usually all you see of Danny. He thinks it’s his best side:
So we take usually three or four runs before we have to go in and warm up. During the runs, we regroup and share some jokes or discuss the ski conditions. The truth is we are trying to be considerate and let other people try the snow before we tear it up too much.
Now we have a number of interesting personalities who appear every week. There’s this guy Matt he claims to sell heavy equipment and carbon credits during the week and plays with his grandkids the rest of the time. We know that he really skis during that time. At any rate, he and his wife Mary are great skiers and great folks.
But I digress. We ski those runs before going in for hot chocolate and a nice break. Some more clowning around happens. Then usually, the original trailboss will end the break by asking that “we all rise,” and we head back out to ski some more runs.
Every once in a while the original trailboss will push the limits for the group…and we will charge down something different such as Lower Doug’s Drop. We make sure that everyone makes it out in one piece or at least alive. The point is to have fun and we do a good job at that. Sometimes we get some skiing in…
