I've done some dumb things in my life...

March 04, 2023

But this Is right up there for one of the dumbest…

After driving almost 17 hours through Big Sky, MT and Missoula and up through Golden to Revelstoke for a few days of skiing I spent a few days In revelry. Drinking too much, eating burgers and poutine with gravy and cheese curd, It came back to bite me hard.

I‘m sitting up, wide awake in extreme pain typing this. Frustrated at my own stupidity and short sightedness. I have been waiting a year for this trip: A week of backcountry ski touring In the Canadian Rockies with my friends and now I am here In a shitty motel In Golden BC where tomorrow I catch a helicopter out to IceFall Lodge. I can’t sleep at all, the pain In my foot is unbearable, my mind is racing and it’s my own damn fault. All I can see is being unable to ski and be stuck In a lodge for a week doing nothing.

My family has a history of gout. My older brother has it, my dad too and despite my strict workouts and mostly strict diet when I stray and enjoy life too much it flares up. My right foot feels broken. Right now I am so mad at myself for my dumb choices. I am getting older, I cannot party like I used to. My body let’s me know how fragile I have become. I am going back and forth with the consequences. Should I bail tomorrow and drive home? Eat the 2800 I put into this trip? Suck It up and go and hope I recover quickly?

I‘ve decided to do the latter: I will not let this stop me from a life experience that has been on my bucket list forever. Stay tuned…

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