Grand Prix & US Open

These past weeks have been a trip. I went from CO to Reno, and had to stay there because I couldn’t get a ride to Mammoth Lakes. Luckily there was a shuttle the next day and my friend Michelle traveled with me. The weather turned bad for competing but great for powder! Best powder days I had all season. I even went skiing for a bit with a teammate, I used little D’s stuff and she used mine. It was a lot of fun, I killed it on skis. There were three days of a blizzard and it was crazy that not many people wanted to ride. This was great because we got to take full advantage of it, free refills all days! Also my Zeal Goggles made seeing everything easier during the blizzard as well as the blue sky on competition day. Once it came to competition day it was beautiful. Sadly I started to freak out about the course, but I pulled it together and landed a run, but nothing I’m really proud of. However overall it was a good trip. Luckily my friend Joanna had the same travel plans as me getting to NH. Next stop, the US Open. We flew from Reno through Denver to Manchester, NH, then drove to Vermont. Finally it was the US Open, where I think was the best course of the season. It was so much fun and not scary. Sadly I broke my thumb, this time the funniest least scary course broke me. I still got to take my semi’s run and earned 10th place even being broken, which I’m proud of. I wish I could have taken the run I had imagined, but maybe next time. It was still a fun time; I met a lot of great people and got to see old friends. Now I get to spend some time at home recovering from this little injury. I’m going to come out stronger from this, things slowly always work out. This season hasn’t gone exactly how I wanted, but everything happens for a reason I suppose.