Last Friday was fun, but painful. I went with my brother and four of his friends up to Boreal to ski and snowboard. I started off with skis that were too long. Long = less control but greater speeds. I went up to one of the steep slopes on my third run with confidence that I won't fall. Instead, I find myself unable to slow down while sliding down faster and faster. I was trying to avoid crashing into people. Although I succeeded in avoiding a painful crash, I crossed my skis tripping over and was thrown face first into the snow. I slammed down on the slope face first, did a flip, perhaps a roll, and slid down ten to twenty feet on my stomach. That was a bad fall as I stood up to find my nose was bleeding. After that, skiing wasn't so bad as I switched to shorter skis giving me more control.

After lunch, I decided to try out snowboarding. All of us went up to one of the curvy slopes. Two already knew how to snowboard. Two had the morning to learn. While two had absolutely no experience. I was one of the two with no experience. I didn't know how to heel or toe (I just knew the concept, but never done it). When we reach the top of the slope, I get stuck on a flat surface so the other guys said to jump to move again. Didn't help much if you can't control a snowboard. I spent a good 10 minutes jumping up and down moving nowhere. When I was finally moving, I did nothing but fall either on my face or my ass. It took about 30 minutes to get down the slope although if you knew how to ski or snowboard, it would have taken around 5-7 minutes. When I finally got to the bottom, I was dead tired. But I still wanted to snowboard. So I went up to the top again. This time my brother met up with another friend of his and they went down a different route. One that went past the toughest routes to ski. It took me about 10 minutes before I was able to get down a bit. I got stuck again and decided to take off my board and walk down to join the other beginners. The only problem was, I was so tired by that time that I carelessly let my board fall down the tough slope. To fetch it, I had to climb down. That part was easy. Getting back up was a bitch. I kept slipping and falling as I couldn't find good footing in soft snow. One of the guys had to climb down again and pull me up so I could finally get up. After that, I just decided to walk all the way down to the kiddy slopes and then put on my board. That's how the rest of the day went. I got toe down, but it makes my legs hella sore. I tried to get heel, but every time I tried it, I would stop too fast and throw myself forward landing in a faceplant.