Tooth Fairy

It was the end of Christmas-New Years break, and Sir Sams was open for business.

We were here on New Years day and I was expecting it to be packed but as we entered the parking lot there was hardly anyone here.  Maybe everyone thought it would be busy and decided to stay in.  Or it was because it was -16 deg C.


These guys stay warm by drinking booze. It also makes this little hill more challenging.  There's no moguls, but drink enough and you will see them.

I was our first skiing of the season.  There hadn't been any snow until after Christmas.

The low temps made sure that the snow wasn't going anywhere until Spring.




Even the Russians were here.  To them -16 deg C (3 deg F for those Yankees still fighting the metric system that the rest of the world uses) is balmy weather.
Don't even need gloves.  They go ice fishing with their bare hands.  They just eat bacon and put their hands in a hole in the ice and the fish smell the bacon grease and once they feel a nibble on their fingers they snatch em.


Kieran finally lost his first tooth today.  It had been loose for a while, but Baka yanked it out like it was a chicken feather on a freshly killed chicken that was heading straight for the soup pot.

It was precision yanking.  Kieran didn't even feel it.
Just asked to get it pulled and it was out.  Dental tools are for wussies.

I would have figured he would have lost his tooth going into the woods skiing.  I thought I was going to lose a tooth and possibly dislocate a shoulder going in through here.
I was dodging some rocks as well as fallen trees in there.  Much harder to make turns with 200cm long skis than his 120's.
But after cutting turns in the woods. The runs all of a sudden got much easier.



Surprisingly he came out largely unscathed when he ventured into the trees, except this one time that I decided to go with logic and not follow him in.
He was doing fine and then I couldn't see him anymore.
But he's in the picture.  Can you spot him?

Luckily someone spotted him struggling in the bush.  But he was fine, he was just having a hard time getting up in the deep snow.  Everyone is so nice up there.

This isn't us, these were a bunch of yahoos going for it.  The first guy made it.  The second crashed in a cloud of snow.  We didn't see the third.

I like this kind of skiing, there were lots of kids, but parking is no problem, next to no lines for the lifts, lots of fresh snow, friendly people, ski's tuned 1/2 the price in TO.  I don't mind that the hill isn't very large, i find it nice to ski at my leisure.   The skiing in the trees is another story.  A little stressful at first, but gotta admit it helped me get better.  No fear.