Spring Break Snowboarding

Starting of my spring break on a Sunday was my last day of winter to go snowboarding with my sister. We decided to try out Yosemite's ski resorts which I been to once with my friend Adam. But my sister found another ski resort that would save us an hour of time to snowboard at Dodge Ridge ski resort located in a small town called Pinecrest. Before our trip we went to San Fransisco to rent my snowboard at the Sports Basement. This place was actually big and it had three floors with sports equipment. My snowboard rentals were cheap that only cost me $15 for my snow boots and my snowboard. They had some other cheap snow clothing that was around ten dollars off than the original prices.

My sister called the ski resort to check if they had more snow built up over the night. No one picked up and it went to the voice message. It said Fridays snow went up by five inches of snow overnight and the morning was 27 degrees. We were on our way to Pinecrest. It took about two and a half hour to get there. We were an hour away from Yosemite. When we got there we just notice it was Easter Day when we saw the Easter bunny walking around. My sister went to go pick up our lift tickets and we were headed to our first run.

When we started to go on the ski lift it was dangerous for people who never went to this ski resort because the ski lifts were too fast even tho they slowed it down for you. The ski lifts were two seated but in the middle there was a pole in the way when you sit. Right when you sit on it you really don't expect the seat to go back and forth like a swing.When my sister and i got on the ski lift it was all bad. Right when I sat down the seat tilted backwards that almost made me fell like three feet of the ground. Then I looked next to me to see if my sister was okay but she wasn't next to me. I looked back and she fell right before she sat down. That was why I almost fell off also. That part kind of ruined our day and they need to up grade their lifts. We just continued our snowboarding day. We went on a intermediate run and it was fun. We went up on the same one and while we were the lift we saw some snow ramps at the side. We wanted to try it and it actually wasn't scary at all. After that we started to go to the left of the mountain where there was the steeper slopes. When we got to the top it started to snow a little bit so I had to go back down to see if they had snow goggle on sale because it was their last day until they closed. I wanted to look around to see if they had cheap snow goggles. The cheapest they had was $44.99 which is a good deal. Regular snow goggles are worth $70-$120 for good ones. We went back up to the top. We went on a advanced slope that was steep and we went for it. It was really fun and I wanted to go again. As we went again I was right be hide my sister and we were going in a zig zag. Good thing I bought snow goggles because I started to go straight and my sister went to the right. A few seconds later I hit her snowboard and fell down head first on a really steep slope. And I slid down about 40ft and it was hard for me to stop. I had a lot of snow in my face and i went down about half the steep slope.

An hour later the weather started to get bad. It was freezing cold and winding. It was 30 degrees cold. So we went started to go home about an hour early due to the weather. I was surprised it was still snowing during April.