On the lift

On the lift
Originally uploaded by WeBees

We made it back from our trip to the Pocono Mt's in one piece! We spent two days learning the basics of snowboarding. Neither of us have skied for years so we had a choice of either "learning" to ski again or learning to snowboard. We both choose to try snowboarding the first day with the intention to ski on Saturday. I started out riding "goofy" which means right foot forward because I forewent proper classes and learned with some pointers from friends. Okay, it didn't go too badly. We went down the long beginner green slope by the end of the day at Shawnee. We didn't wear helmets and B whacked his head quite nicely a couple of times. Because of this he decided to ski on Saturday and I wanted to keep snowboarding. Saturday we went to Camelback which had much better (Burton) and newer boards and boots. By part of the way through Saturday B switched his ski's for a board and tried again. I realized I wasn't "goofy" and managed to make a bit more progress with fully strapping in rather than just gliding and sideslipping with one foot in and one out. We both want to do more boarding because we really enjoyed it even though we are still in pain. It's quite a full body workout and a challenge trying something new like this but there is nothing better to help you forget your normal life complaints and stresses.