While Craig gets 80-100 days on the hill each year, skiing all sorts of conditions with his herd of stags, I relish the rare powderdays like this one... a buttery, foggy Saturday with a few old friends. That means my numbers are considerably lower, but perhaps my appreciation factor is higher.
Craig has had some struggles this year however with equipment failure, and is currently enduring a rebuild of his 2016 Bramble monoski (huge thanks to Kevin Bramble for the premium customer care and attention Craig is receiving!). He's been skiing on one of the STARS Org's Freedom Revolution rigs, ironically what he skied on for 20 years prior... And reminding him why he upgraded to the (nearly) bomb-proof Bramble, as he's replaced 2 shocks now and spent countless hours adjusting and tweaking. I'd forgotten the days of equipment failure ... It's no picnic.
Even though he blew out shock # ? today in the deep, he was still all smiles for this exciting spring storm, and grateful to be skiing at all.
Today marks 25 years since Craig's accident here in Steamboat Springs, where a wrong-turn turned into a 300-foot launch, fall, and slide, resulting in a helicopter ride to Craig Hospital in Denver, where he woke up after a 3-day morphine-induced coma to a lifetime of paralysis.
But that hasn't stopped Craig, and today is a perfect example. He skis harder than anyone I know, dedicated all year to staying fit, and truly squeezes the juice out of life to make the sweet orange nectar of his reality!
We are blessed to have each other for 21 of those 25 years, and to call Steamboat home!
Runs we crushed in yesterday's storm:
Rudi's - Blizzard -> 4 Points
Tornado/Cyclone - Dropout -> Storm Peak
Buddy's - Flying Z - Dropout -> Pony Express
1/2 Pitch - Nash - Wapiti - Tornado Lane -> Storm Peak
Highline - Flintlock - Sunshine Liftline -> Sunshine Lift
Sundial - Black Powder - Tomahawk - Ramrod -> Sunshine Lift
"T2B" (Top-to-Bottom)
See you In The Deep!
