Tyler called last night looking to get out for his second day of the year. His first was way back in October. I'd already had a date with the Moose for today and knew that the two were probably not a good fit for uphill, but figured a slower lap or two would be ok, then we could bag another one or two when fatigue set in. Tyler crashed on the couch last night and we met the Moose for 8am at the upper parking lot.

We headed for his name sake and it quickly became apparent that I'd misjudged the situation. I felt bad for everyone involved, but there's no undo button. We dropped Piggot at about 12:15 or so and found terrific turns down to the bottom. Tyler bailed after the first lap and the Moose I scurried up for a second. This time we did some "preventative maintenance" on the Moose Chute and enjoyed what might have been the best lap of the year. It was nicely filled in and we did our best to make sure we slashed the hoar out of any pockets.

It was 2:30 and that would normally mean ample time for at least another lap, but the Moose had a time constraint today, so we pulled the pin and cross country snowboarded back to the vehicle. Total up was 4,390, but we had an early enough start that 3 laps would have been a gimme and 4 would have been a very good possibility, even with the no-head-lamp exit time constraint. Two laps are better than none I guess and hopefully everyone was more or less stoked with the outcome.