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OH! EEP! One more thing. Provincials are either gonna be in Smithers, or Whistler. I'm really hoping for Smithers, because I've never been there. It's this tiny mountain 16 hours ish, 1200km up North passed Terrace and Prince George. It's tiny with 1 chair lift and 2 T-Bars and a rope tow, but apparently it has superb terrain and snow conditions. It already has 92cm of snow. I'm so psyched.
Hokay. I realize that Christina just wants to be included because it seems like all of my friends are trying out snowboarding... But jeez. She thinks she can just join the race team and have me teach her while we're there. Now I have no problem teaching people to snowboard. I've taught 2 people from fledglings, and I've taught 2 more just for a couple lessons. I have no problem taking her up some time. But you can't join A RACE TEAM. More importantly, you can't join my team. I love the sport so incredibly much, and I'm kinda possesive of it. As far as I'm concerned, it's my team. Mine. Not seriously, but still. It's my team.
I take it seriously. I go, I check out the run, I go for all of the course inspections and I go for all the lessony-thingamabobbers. I warm up, and I'm there on time, read to race. I can't babysit someone while I do that. Least of all not a beginner.
I mean, Ilona shouldn't even be joining. But she will get points, and next year she'll do even better with that being her third season and learning on the course. I'm gonna have to make room for her in my race prep.
I don't want so many people I don't like invading my sport. Now that's not a jab at Christina. But Ilona thinks it funny to stick people on snowboards. And it is to an extent. It is certainly not funny when they want to go again though. I don't want to babysit pricks who sit in the snow for half an hour 'adjusting' their equipment. Pricks who fall on their ass and just don't want to get up for half an hour because their frustrated. I don't want to babysit pricks who won't answer when they're called, and don't apologize when I go hiking up to see if they're ok because they don't know how to say I'm just resting! I don't want those pricks contaminating my mountains, or my space, or my time.