Epic Ski Season

We just wrapped up the 24/25 ski season and this year was pretty epic. 

I actually taught at Snowbasin (a couple days a week) which provide season passes for the kids and buddy passes from friends.

Poor Hudson. She's in Scotland so she couldn't board with us this year. She loves boarding. But the bigger tragedy is Tate didn't go once this year even though he had a free pass. What a bum!

Here were some of the memorable moments from the season (both good and bad),.

• Hanging out with friends and family.

My friend Ryan and his son as well as my brother Russ and his family were able to ski with us. Really fun.

• Reece's Face mask

For what reason, Reece really liked to have his face completely covered when he rode. It was a funny looking but also his black attire made it difficult to spot him. I usually was only able to distinguish him from other skiiers by his stature and riding style (a really fast pizza).

Even Gideon is giving him weird looks

• Christmas Eve Light Parade,

I got to be in Snowbasin's light parade Christmas eve. It was a really fun event.

• Harper tried snowboarding

Harper has been officially converted over to a snowboarder. Like most people, it was a struggle at first, but she was cruising pretty well at the end.

There was a day when we ate it hard, bloodied her nose and proceeded to get blood on everything. Not her best moment but she persisted.

The tide is now turned. We now have three snowboarder kids and two skiers (not sure if Tate even counts).

• The Snowboard Boot

As I mentioned, Harper learned to board this year. She was using a pair of boots that were already struggling a bit. The treads on the bottom of the boot had come off the year prior and I had glued them back on. This year, the treads immediately came off again, and then other bottom of the boot started flopping off. At the end of the season, because it was the tread on the right foot, Harper started unstrapping her left foot (going goofy) when getting on the lifts. And she was coming up out of the boot when she rode. In the final days, the boot gave up the ghost and the bottom completely came off. We certainly got our money's worth out of that thing.

• Pond Skim and Costume contest

On the last weekend, Snowbasin has a costume day and does a pond skim. Reece came in his full dinosaur outfit. He couldn't see a thing but it was a big hit. He even attempted the pond skim in it. He totally wiped out but it was awesome.

• Improvement and shenanigansPond Skim and Costume contest

We went boarding/skiing a lot this season and the kids really improved. The kids even got comfortable going to the freestyle park. And they did a lot of screwing around.

All in all, a good year.