Fear holding back the ripper?

[Trekchick]

That's how I ended up all by myself on a slope at A-basin on Mother's Day, nearly hyperventilating. Had skied the same trail the day before in powder..it was a lot different that day with a somewhat wide open view. Freaked me right out... and the bail out I planned was blocked. The next thing I knew, everyone was gone, and I just stood there...frozen, staring. It must have taken me 10 minutes to muster up the courage just to side-slip down. Bad, bad, bad. I'm working on that, even with the MTBing. Trying not to look too long because it just makes things worse.

Then again, I also tore my ACL trying to counter-act that freak-out, so I have some work to do on finding the proper middle ground here.

You weren't completely alone! We were cheering you from the chair lift

Sincerely, because you handled that terrain the day before, it never occurred to us that you were "stuck". After waiting for a bit at the bottom, we decided to head back up and retrace our steps to find you, which we did, from the lift. By that point, you had it made. Yay Carrie!

 

[Trekchick]

That's how I ended up all by myself on a slope at A-basin on Mother's Day, nearly hyperventilating. Had skied the same trail the day before in powder..it was a lot different that day with a somewhat wide open view. Freaked me right out... and the bail out I planned was blocked. The next thing I knew, everyone was gone, and I just stood there...frozen, staring. It must have taken me 10 minutes to muster up the courage just to side-slip down. Bad, bad, bad. I'm working on that, even with the MTBing. Trying not to look too long because it just makes things worse.

Then again, I also tore my ACL earlier in the season trying to counter-act that freak-out freeze-up, so I have some work to do on finding the proper middle ground here.

I was looking at this Abasin Cam and the WROD that they are working on, and I thought, ............I wonder if Carrie will recognize that run.