Dear Interweb,
After X-Games, I drove to Park City with my two of my favourite ski girls, Jen Hudak and Jess Cumming. The girl-talk filled hours were a lovely break from the time I had spent in X-Games and was much needed female time before spending time in Park City with the Rossi French contingency: Xavier Bertoni, Kevin Rolland, Coach Greg, Arnaud Peyrin, Matt Lopez and the young Armada rider, Benoit Valentin.
We spent the next two days shooting photos/video. It was endlessly amusing and very French. My presence seemed to make them blush a lot but it didn’t stop their ongoing antics, inside jokes and comedy routines. I did tire of “fart capsules” (don’t even ask!) and consistently being the only person wearing pants (those boys definitely get their money’s worth from their underwear sponsor, Pull-in….) but I really enjoyed getting to know them all.
Departures were consistently delayed with the Frenchies as something or someone always seemed to be forgotten. It became a form of a French farce.
Waiting...again...
On the road..finally
I pretty much gave up trying to use my French because I couldn’t understand their rapid slang and inside joke-filled French, which was even more confusing as there was never less than 3 of them speaking at the same time.
Monday, January 26th was my first day skiing out of the park since Christmas and I got some excellent powder turns. I was still on the Rossi park ski, the S4, but I still managed to (almost) keep up to the guys on the S6 (powder ski) and S7 (rockered powder ski).
It really burned my little brother who was in Canada at our home hill (yay Castle Mountain!) with spring-like weather and no new snow in the forecast. Aw.
Sincerely,
RozG (Rozzy)
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