Mammoth

Nic and I went to Mammoth this weekend. We haven't been up there in forever so we were really looking forward to it. Of course, I was a bit nervous about skiing because of my back injury, but my chiropractor gave me the ok. On Friday night, my dad, Justin, Nic and I went to Austria Hof for dinner, which was delicious.

That first night, I slept horribly! I could not get comfortable and I was having major pillow problems and woke up with my back really hurting, which made me even more nervous about skiing. Nic was nervous too, but for different reasons...he had only skiied twice before and the last time was about two years ago.

On Saturday morning, we went to this thing called "early ups." We took the gondola up to the parallax restaurant and enjoyed breakfast with gorgeous views of the moutnain before heading out early to enjoy the first run down the mountain by ourselves! It was really cool!! It was very nice to ski without worrying about anyone else being around. My back didn't hurt any worse than it was already hurting when I woke up so that was a plus! We cruised all over (I was extremely impressed with how well Nic did) and watched Justin in a skier cross race. Then we went and had lunch at Main Lodge and watched Justin's award ceremony (he got 2nd place).

That afternoon we went snowmobiling. I have a good story about that adventure, but I will save it for another day.

The next day, we got up early again to ski some more. We went all the way to each end of the mountain and Nic even skiied off the top!! At one point I thought he was going to slide off a trail down a rocky hill and the course we wanted to take was closed forcing us down a much more challenging trail than planned, but I guess it was all part of the adventure and Nic handled it all very well. :)

That afternoon, we walked sown to the village for lunch at this most delicious restaurant, before flying back to LA. Overall, it was a pretty fun weekend!