Day 26: Copper Mountain
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
I kept hearing great things about Copper Mountain, especially from my friend Adam. I finally got a chance to check it out yesterday with a few folks from DS (Lynn, Ray, and Jeff). The mountain is indeed awesome. In the course of one day we played in the children’s terrain park (small rails and boxes), the medium terrain park (intermediate jumps), their full sized park (holy crap), and their super pipe. For the first time, I rode up the walls of a pipe and kinda started to get a feel for it. The pipe puzzles me. Anyway, we also explored some very fine trees and spend a lot of time playing in a “double black diamon extreme” area on the back side of the mountain. I rode down a chute that was too narrow to carve at the top - that was a rush. I managed to wreck my powder board by trying to kick off of a snow covered rock. Turns out, the snow wasn’t so well packed and my nose bored right into the side of the rock - sending me into a full mid-air cart wheel. They said it looked amazing. We also found a nice drop off of a rock ledge that was probably around 8 foot high.
I’m trying to get dressed and out the door today to go play at Echo Mountain Park. It’s supposed to be much closer to me than the resorts I frequent; however, it’s also supposed to be nothing but a terrain park. I’d like to go check it out and see for myself. I really need to work on some ground tricks and get better and compressing my landings off of jumps.
74 days left…
