southern style vodka party
2:00pm-6:00pm
the 8th annual vodka party hosted by your down home friends from the atl. our hospitality is here to cool you down and get you hot! don't make us take 45gallons of vodka home! hosted by: velvet soulmine @ bi-polar and 4:30
photo by caroline miller
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whitewater is closed during the week, so it has been five days since the lifts were running. that also meant that whitewater has been accumulating snow for five days without anyone riding it. jonas and frederic pikced me up early so that we could get to the mountain before the lifts opened. i was so excited to ride first tracks, and so were my swedish friends.
the last time i tried to make first tracks was at whistler in january. by the time we got to the chair lift, the lineup for the gondola looked like this:
there was a big lineup at whitewater for the first chair, but a big lineup here looks more like this:
there was lots of snow on the mountain, but the sun had been cooking it, so the powder was really thick and sticky. it is spring. it didn't matter to me though, making first tracks was a high i will never forget. no one in front of you on the chair lift, no tracks made on the runs...heaven!
it was also the annual whitewater beach party, so there was a hill full of people dressed up and enjoying some incredible spring conditions.
i even saw two guys riding snowbikes.
i took a little break and spun some poi outside of the lodge. my friend meredith who works at whitewater suggested i try spinning poi while snowboarding. hmmm...never thought of that before, so it was worth a try. turns out it is possible.
click here to see me poiboarding ;)
there was a live 5 piece marimba band playing inside the lodge, in celebration of beach weekend. i had never heard a marimba before, and i was blown away.
they look lke a xylophone, only bigger...and the sound is deep and heavy. the rhythms were so good i couldn't help but shake my ass in the middle of the lodge. what an incredible place to be! awesome snowboarding, people dressed up, first tracks, and a marimba band to dance to. oh yah, and some nelson brewery faceplant ale to drink (thanks jonas and frederic).
those who know are here...those who don't are somewhere else, and that's just fine with the people who are here.
~*...normaste...*~
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