White Pass closing weekend, Rhythm & Bruise

Saturday morning was a little ruff as the Casual Industree's backyard party went on Friday night, so the 6:30am alarm wasn't as welcomed as it usually is (thanks Tagge and Dan).
I woke up though and managed to brew some coffee, pack the Donkey 2 and get out of Seattle by a little after 7. 3 hours 3 min later, Milo and I were atop of White Pass, lift tickets in hand and in the company of some familiar faces. We were there Saturday to practice on the track but kept getting side county'd with the pow that fell the night before. Yes, pow on April 30th. Sunny blue skys and pow, in WA to boot.
Ended up doing lap after lap on Matt Cummins and Zac Bashers BMX style course all day on  Saturday.  There were 19 or so jumps, that consisted of step up's, step downs, tables, wedges, gaps, butter boxes and rails all in a 5 straight away, 4 bermed course built by...SKIERS. These 4 kids, put on a clinic too on how to ride the course but too bad for them that this was a snowboard only event. As Mr. Russell Winfield said after I commented to him how hard those kids were shredding: "yea whatever, their one step away from being a rollerblader." Well put Borg.
Sunday was the event and almost 70 dudes showed up for the 6 age groups. Each group had a hour to rip the course, hike back up and then judge each other on who was the raddest going thru. My group went first, the Cruisers (40+), combo'd with the Experts (30-39) and the Groms (12 and under).  Milo took to this thing like I've never seen him take to anything and pretty much schooled all of us in the 3 groups. 
The day ended and the sessions got progressively stepped up thru out the day with the pro's shutting the contest down. 
This was hands down the funnest event that Milo and I ever have done. The course, weather, people (God damn the people at White Pass are nice, real nice), the mountain...everything was killer. Everything seemed to fall into place.  My body on the other hand is killing me.  Sunday morning I woke up and felt like I had done a Gut-B-Gone super session as my abs were torqued from not having rhythm.  And Sunday...8 or so runs, combo'd with hiking back up to do it again and again, AND the 3 hour drive home, AND listening to Milo tell me how he'd build the course next year...Dad was done.
Another great season ending at a WA mountain. Thanks One Ball Jay, White Pass, Mervin, Matt Cummins and Zac Basher for busting their asses on this thing.