Ski Trip - Saturday 8/22/09

So to update on last Saturday's ski trip, we launched the boat at sunrise - 7am. We had one other skier with us, Chris who is one of Jenny's co-workers. He has been skiing most of his life and is very smooth on slalom. There was absolutely no wind and we all skied slalom first. This was the ski run where I crossed the wake successfully for the first time on backwards slalom.

After two hours of great skiing on smooth water, we went back to the dock to swap out skiers. Chris had to go start some house chores for the weekend but we picked up another co-worker of Jenny's and other friends. Seth and his fiance Laura, Seth's brother Jeffery and Micah, former intern from Jenny's work. This group all wanted to wakeboard so we started off with Seth. This was his second time riding the wakeboard and he crossed both wakes with ease. Jeffery was not successful in getting up the first attempt and unfortunately ran out of time before he was able to try again. Laura got up for the first time, but had to leave before she could get the hang of it and ski away down the lake. Micah started with crossing the wake on wakeboard and then started jumping the wake. He was getting the entire board out of the water and after a couple of nasty falls learned to control the landing and ski away. Jenny then rode the wakeboard and had a successful run with a spill. I rode trick skis and did multiple turns including a helicopter outside the wake.

After two hours with this group they had to leave to attend a family function (except for Micah, he stayed). Since we were taking a lunch break by the dock, Jenny called one more of her co-workers - Shawn. He came out to meet us at about noon for the final part of our day on the lake. Shawn started off skiing on two. He had skied before but not this year yet so it took him a little bit to get back into the groove. Once he was comfortable again, we put Micah out there with him. They skied very well together, crossing the wake chasing each other, until the very end when they realized that they could "go after" each other. Then it became how to spray the other person and make them fall. That eventually happened and Micah then rode two by himself. Jenny and I both skied slalom again. Then we taught Shawn how to do a deep water start on slalom. Micah wakeboarded again and learned to do an Ollie outside of the wake. He tried and could not master the Switchstance. Jenny then rode the wakeboard again for a short run. I then rode the wakeboard, performed a couple of Ollies and then had one horrible face plant trying to do a Switchstance while crossing the wake. Jenny said that was it, I was too tired to continue and I agreed. So at about 2pm we headed in. A very successful day on the lake and the wind never exceeded 5 mph.

7 hours of skiing, 8 skiers, 10 skis used, 1 wakeboard, 7 ropes used.

Hopefully more later today after today's ski run.
Jerry