Warren Miller Ski Movie- Ride

Whistler hires a team of avalanche hunters known as the dawn patrol.
...always

remember that an avalanche has one job. and that job is to kill you.

I rented two Warren Miller movies yesterday from the library. Ride, and
Storm.

Warren miller has been making movies about skiing for the past 50 years.

they are an annual event that are shown in local theaters across the
country.

usually they are shown in the late fall. One effect is that people get

excited about the sport and look forward to the ski season with the

anticipation of a dog to T-bone steak.
When I was in high school I went to the movies along with my friends and we
got

to see what real skiing was like.
I lived in Michigan, halfway between the windy city, and Motown. During the

ice age the glaciers stopped there advance in Northern Michigan. Leaving the

southern half a puddle of lakes and forest. From the west the great lakes
are

a perfect snow making machine. cold air comes down from Canada and across
the

plains, meets warm water and gathers it into clouds. The clouds travel
across

the lake over the ground turn cold again and it snows. The Keweenaw
peninsula

is known to have up 250 inches of snow a year. It is called "lake effect"

snow.

We got ready and waited another two months for enough snow to accumulate or
for

machines to place a layer of deep enough for skiing at the local ski hill.
The

local hill is about 150 or so feet high. It is very small and not very

interesting. But to go out every Thursday night and ski until our legs fell

off was more than enough. We never tired of it.

I took three trips to Colorado with our church youth group. A small place
in

Glenwood Springs. It boasted of a 2000 vertical foot from top to bottom.
the

longest run- 1.5 miles. the time there was well spent. the excitement was

limitless. Skiing was a dream come true. I spent hours looking at ski

magazines trying to improve my style. checking out the latest gear.

Warren Miller movies caught the excitement, bundled it into a 1.5 hour

Presentation and let it loose. Then as now, I watch these movies and
reflect.

The statement is. Life is meant to be lived. It is borrowed time as Miller

puts it, why not get the most out of it. Enjoy the beauty of creation, live
a

Little, take risks, and ski.

I think one of man's desires is to fly like a bird. Or dance god like on
water

isn't that what we're doing when we are out there skiing? Dancing with the

mountain dancing on frozen water. Dancing on borrowed time. -Warren Miller

Bus Riding

Joel: So did I tell you what happened last night
Rebecca: no
Ben dropped me off at the bus station
Rebecca: yeah?
I was scrounging around for 2.50$ I asked a nice later for change for a
10.00 just to get correct change. I needed a quarter. Well she laughed dug
into her purse and pulled out a quarter. I was so happy. I had correct
change! Well then the bus shows up at stall 4, I eagerly hop on thinking I
was just in time. We sit for 3 min the driver closes the door, and we head
out of the bus station to 405 and the driver turns north. Umm. North as in
towards Everett I panicked and started to rifle thru the bus guide I was
on the 530 heading north not good we made the first stop but I hit the
request stop bar too late and ended up going on to the second stop quietly
went forward and asked if there was a station nearby where I could catch the
530 southbound he gave me a transfer and I walked across the overpass
about 20 min later I got on the bus headed back to Bellevue and ended up
getting on the 565 all in all, an extra hour of joyriding I was tired and
not paying attention
Rebecca: wow, that's quite an adventure
yea stupid mistakes thankfully I parked in auburn
Rebecca: but some quick thinking too