Day Two at Castle...

Exactly one week later, I went back up to Castle Mountain for the second time. This time I was stoked, been hearing that it dumped on Sunday night up to Tuesday morning. Also heard that Red (Tamarack) Chair to upper mountain was open and Rawhide Terrain Park was somewhat built. Even with being dead tired on the way up, I was excited about seeing what was new. Last week it was bunk, fucking no snow at all. It was weird seeing the valley from mid mountain and seeing green trees.

Well I was disappointed to say the least, it was still really bare still. A lot better then last week, but still marginal as fuck. As for Tamarack be open, 140km winds stopped that in its tracks, plus it didn't look good enough to bare those winds. Whatever, still sticking to my groomed runs, working up my legs and practising riding switch. It's pathetic how I have no strength in my legs, I can't sit in the pocket, spin or land with my out my legs giving out.

Rawhide Terrain Paek is pretty sick so far this year, you can tell they just threw it together for early season. I swear last year it was a good month and a half to two months before Rawhide was set up. Last year's set up was sick, very rustic. Lots of wood, a gap to log tap, horse stable hip, barrel and a tracker tire. Of course there is the standard boxes, rails, flat-downs, breadboxes, jumps and a wall. This year they changed the opening to the terrain park for the intersection of the Coach and Tumbleweed to straight down Coach to a good ten to fifteen foot step up. You can't really see in the shit video, but it starts at the bottom of the set up to two jumps. A booter and roller, then some boxes and rails.

Rawhide is always a work in progress and I am excited to see what's to come. Now we just need some snow to play with on the whole mountain. Then we will be set. Just need to get out to Castle more. Might try hitchhiking on my days off, see how that works out...