I decided to join Mike for a weekend snowboarding trip to Tahoe. Judy wasn’t quite in the mood to go on such a last-minute trip (the notion of going didn’t cross my mind until late Friday afternoon), and since several of Mike’s buddies flaked, it ended up just being Mike and myself.

We stayed at Mike’s timeshare in the Tahoe area and hit Sierra at Tahoe the first day. It was my first time there and I wasn’t too impressed as the resort is quite small with not a lot of varied terrain. My favorite part of the resort was one of the parks which had perfectly sized (for me) jumps and boxes, but I only got two runs through it before they closed it off for some kind of class.

The next day, we hit Northstar which I liked much better than Sierra. Conditions were much improved as well and we were able to find quite a few stashes of good powder in the trees. We were having loads of fun until about mid afternoon when I took a jump slightly off balance and somehow hyper-extended my leg/knee on the landing. I tried doing another run, but quickly realized that the injury was serious enough that I couldn’t finish out the day. I headed back down early while Mike did a few more runs.

At first, my knee didn’t feel too bad (not good for sure, but not that bad), but I did have a noticeable limp. As time passed and my body cooled down during the drive back, things really stiffened up and by the time we got home, I had a seriously pronounced limp. Hopefully I can get over this soon. Oh well, I guess that’s what I get for going snowboarding without Judy.

I only took a small handful of pics.

Posted by Roger at 10:22 PM.