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Sunday, January 29, 2006
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11:40 PM
by Tommy
Came back from Stephen's bachelor party this weekend in Lake Tahoe...
Log of Saturday's snowboarding trip: 6:30 AM: Woke up after 3.5 hours of sleep 7:30 AM: Picked up our snowboarding rentals and ate breakfast 8:30 AM: Started driving toward Kirkwood. Our cabin was about 5 minutes from Heavenly, but we decided beforehand to go to Kirkwood... 9:00 AM: It was snowing pretty hard, so we had to put on snow chains on our cars. The person who gave Stephen his chains gave him the wrong size, so he had to go buy new ones. 9:30 AM: With our chains on, we started off toward Kirkwood again. 9:32 AM: I was in Allen's car, and we noticed a strange noise on the left side and then the right side of our car. When we got out of the car, we saw that neither of the chains were still on their tires. 9:50 AM: Allen found the broken chains on the road and then had to find somewhere to park his car. We all squeezed into 3 cars. 10:45 AM: We finally arrived at Kirkwood, but we couldn't find Jerry's car (which was at the end of our caravan). He had all of the snowboards, but none of the people in his car were picking up their cell phone. 11:30 AM: It turns out that Jerry's car had parked in a different lot, and so they finally found us at this time. 11:45 AM: Finally, everyone was ready to go and the guys got on the first lift. 11:45! Had we gone to Heavenly, they probably would've started snowboarding at 9... I say "they" because I didn't go snowboarding because of my shoulder problems. So I sat in the lounge, took a nap, read a book, and ate lunch for the next 3 hours. 3:00 PM: Some of the guys were already finished at this point since conditions weren't very good. 4:15 PM: Everyone was done by this point, so we went back to the car. 4:30 PM: Chongo's car wouldn't start, so we had to use jumper cables to try to get it working. 4:45 PM: After a few different attempts, Chongo's car started and we were on our way back to the cabin. Fortunately, the rest of the night wasn't quite as eventful... 3 Comments:Joto and I also had problems with our chains on the way back. He lost a cables that cross through the treads and I lost a chunk of my chain and had to macgyver it with a plastic bag. By chongo1201, at Mon Jan 30, 09:10:00 AM Crazy. Why did the chains all suck? By basile with an e, at Mon Jan 30, 03:25:00 PM dunno... just not our day. By Tommy, at Mon Jan 30, 07:36:00 PM Post a Comment |