We all know that the Yankees suck, but why do they have to be so ugly in their sucking? Today I went to the Yankees’ website to look up their schedule, and I was greeted with this disturbing picture of Yankee pitcher Jeff Karstens. This picture really should have been blurred out or had some warning about graphic content that you have to click through before you see it:
Visiting Dartmouth/Killington
More cowbell!
This past weekend I went to visit my sister at Dartmouth. We went skiing at Killington on Saturday, which was one of the nicest days of the ski season. It was ~50 degrees and sunny, and Killington was running the Bear Mountain Mogul Challenge, which is a big outdoor party (this year featuring Blue Oyster Cult) coupled with an amateur mogul competition. The picture below captures it well. Mogul bums are everywhere, it’s 50 degrees, I’m skiing Outer Limits at Killington while rocking out to Blue Oyster Cult, who is playing a concert at the bottom of the run. People are tailgating on the ski slopes (we saw one group boiling lobster on their grill on the slopes) and yelling for more cowbell.
On Sunday we went to the Ben and Jerry’s factory and the Green Mountain Coffee factory/museum. Both were exciting, although we didn’t get a tour of the coffee roasters, and thus didn’t get any free samples.
Mad River Glen: Ski it if you can?
On Wednesday I made my first trip ever to ski Mad River Glen with a friend from church, and although skiing is always awesome, this trip was a little bit sad. Tuesday it got warm and rained, and pretty much the entire mountain melted out because it was almost all powder. They went form 100% open to ~40% open in 1 day. The guy at the ski shop thought they would close this weekend. I saw a lot of good looking terrain, but yesterday it was cold and didn’t really soften up at the top and almost nothing was open at the bottom. There were probably fewer than 50 skiers on the mountain. Below are some funny pictures of me trying to ski on grass. Somehow the runs didn’t seem to have too many rocks on them and it sorta worked.
Grassy moguls. Almost as good as regular moguls.
As long as there aren’t too many rocks, you can ski practically anything.
