THE WIFFLE BALL GAME OF DEATH (day 2)

Doogie drove up in my car and when he saw the equipment room that is my trunk he insisted that we bring my wiffle ball set. Just keep that in mind…

Waking up cold is best remedied by hot oatmeal, boiled in melted snow with pine needles ALL UP IN IT! (The pine needles were in everything we ate or drank on this trip and honestly I already miss the taste and the pine spitting contests that we had.) After the hard day hiking up to the camp we had a slow start on our second day and around 10 we made our way 100 feet down the trail to the closest slide (non skier note – this is a treeless piece of the hill that makes for great skiing) that we were planning on skiing. Before we headed up we wanted to make sure our avalanche safety and self-arrest skills were up to par so we spent some time at the base of the slide practicing the basics.


Around noon we felt ready to boot pack it up the slide and let’em rip! But wait a minute we need to check the snow stability first… Igor and Huck dug a snow pit checked the stability and we booted right back down ☹ the snow looked unstable and we made the call not ski the slides, so as not to die…

We headed back to camp ate lunch (summer sausage – no it is not good – yes I am eating it right now) and we decided to make the best out of the sunny day. Wiffle ball and Jack Daniels was the best we could do and it was great. Igor, Toma and Ali decided to ski the GoS trail back to the trail head were there is a ranger station and porcelain while Huck, Doogie, Ernesto and I soaked up the sun and played America’s favorite game in, what I Imagine is one of the strangest place it has ever been played.


Because I know you care; our box score:

Name singles doubles triples homers runs catches swigs
Huck 0 1 0 0 0 0 2
Doogie 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
Ernesto 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Me 1 0 0 0 0 0 2

So yeah we tied because that ball was not meant to be hit in 15-degree weather and while we duct taped it up that ball is officially dead. So we were left with a Frisbee, a bottle and the sun and that’s what we did for the rest of the day. Classic spring break lounging!