I am greatful for my team

Hmm. Sorry about the last post...It has been a long autumn. I am trying to let it all go and just concentrate on the impending ski season, that better come soon dammit! As my best friend keeps telling me BE TUFF DOYLE, so that is what I am trying to do. This may be easy for most people but when you are a chronic overanalyzer and obsessive worrier it can be quite the challege at times. For now i am putting the "what ifs" behind and putting my skis on, team shadow is ready to rock.

Northstar, my favorite (though dont tell anyone i said Northstar and not Sierra) mountain is opening one week from today and will hopefully become my safe haven. Then life will get even better when Sierra opens and life will be back to normal and all will be well with the world. It is incredible to think about how, at least for my friends, life and attitudes change so much with the season. Fall is a dark time in Tahoe which pretty much starts with Agro August.

By mid August the resorts have been closed for 3 1/2 months, we havent been camping and skiing for 2 months and summer has officially taken over. Summer in Tahoe is beautiful and there are pleanty of other things to keep us occupied, camping, sailing, bike riding...but no matter what we tell ourselves, deep down we all know that what really gets our hearts racing is the snow. Even though we know we shouldnt, we can not stop ourselves from thinking about it. Only a few months and we will be skiing again, can you believe it. As summer starts winding down, school starts, the lake gets to cold to swim in, business becomes almost nonexistant, these few months start to feel like a few years. The mood is aggrivated, relationships fall apart, we drink our sorrows away and then BAM! its Halloween and we are all broke as shit with nothing to do and the snow really NEEEEEDS to start falling.

November has proven a little brighter, the weather has finally turned cold, we break out all the winter clothes from the garage and put away the boardshorts but alas still no damn snow. Some of us are working through our personal turmoils together, which makes it a little less lonely and a little more managable. Now we will be able to but all the bull shit of lifes inadaquacies on the backburner and live in a state of pure bliss and excitement for the next 5 months.

I want to say thank you to the team, Clif Cale Meg and Tom, its been a rough one but we've made it through, its almost over, and at least we have eachother as we head into Winter.



My last thought: Lets not get ahead of ourselves. We all know our weaknesses. Though I realize it is impossible to make it through the winter without a few trips to the emergency room lets try to leave it at stitches. Let us remain mindfull of our sholders, thighs, wrists, knees and backs and quit while we are ahead. When the pain takes over, leave it for the day, we will always be back tomorrow.

And I think we all agree that life could only be better if we had our Micaela with us every day.