SoCal - 03/15/2009

On Sunday March 15, the Southern California class of 1979 congregated at the Mt. Baldy ski area, also known as the jewel of the San Gabriels.  It was a small congregation, as it turned out, but there were those who loved it.  Dave Hall, Ted Winterer and Rich Pugh, together with Dave’s wife, Rinda, and Dave’s totally cool 5 year old twins, Bodhi and Indira, ascended the winding road and creaky old chairlifts to the summit of the Baldy ski hill at approximately 9200’ feet of elevation20and peered down at the endless sea of SoCal marine layer clouds beneath them.  And they said to each other: “The sun is shining up here.  The snow is ample.  It is good.  And they paid homage to their creator by pointing their tips down the hill and going very fast.”  It was a lovely day of Spring skiing in LaLa land.  We wished that more of our classmates had joined us but alas it was not to be.  Next year we plan to expand the athleticism of the event by adopting a SoCal triathlon format.  In the morning we ski, at midday we go trout fishing on our way down the mountain, and late in the afternoon we descend all the way to sea level and go surfing.  Or maybe we’ll return to the boozing format of prior years.