Rod Smith
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I bought a 4 day local Epic pass, and I learned that some ski areas in Ohio are among those that will accept my third tier Epic pass. Including two ski areas I’d ridden by on a ride a few years ago. They are on opposite sides of the Cuyahoga River Valley. There was a canal and remains a maintained towpath at the base of the valley that I’d ridden before. So why not ski at Boston Mills, get Mary to carry my skis, etc. the 3 miles to Brandywine in her car, while I ride 10+ miles to Brandywine? Then I put my skis back on, it’s still the same day so no additional charge, go ski some more. What could go wrong?
I forgot to lube part of my bindings. I put lube on one spot but later I remembered there was another spot on each binding that should be lubed.
I don’t know if that’s why they didn’t release. They are non-DIN standard, old, safety-release Voilé Telemark bindings. Anyway I had skied all the runs, some several times, I was starting to feel confident and I let my speed increase, then I caught an edge got launched and I felt my knees get hurt, one at a time, but the skis did not release and I was catapulted onto my head. To save freight I had brought only the bike helmet and I wore it skiing and it helped with that impact for sure!
So now, two days later, I can barely walk, but then I went ahead with the plan. I skied another ten runs at Boston Mills, jumped on my bicycle, rode ten miles, eleven, for the Salty Slugs, on some fun stuff I’d discovered before, connected by a nice bike path on the ridge and by the towpath at the lower elevation, 200 feet lower, and I rode around a neighborhood whilst upon the ridge, skied another 2300 vertical at Brandywine, pulled off my new boots which were awesome, and limped back to the car. You can see some big bridges over the valley and the tiny town of Boston, Ohio from the top of Boston Mills Ski Area.
Stanford Rd is closed. I climbed under a gate and rode though a 50 yard long section under ten inches of water before I got to this pothole where the road caved in. I took a picture as soon as I could see it but I should have stopped closer for a better image. Sorry. I managed to ride by on the left ok. This part was steep.
The reward for climbing Stanford is views of Brandywine Gorge.
I rode at the higher elevation on a very nice bike path, rode around a little more then descended to the Towpath Trail on a beautiful Carriage Trail.
I skied a dozen runs at Brandywine easy light on the feet Telemark turns on broken knees. I didn’t take a picture but it’s all on Strava, the skiing and the biking and the skiing. This is my first submission for this pointless prize. The second is a planned century ride to Ski Liberty with 7700 feet of climbing including steep gravel, everyone is welcome to join this ride end of March. More about that later…
One of six small mosaics near the mosaic portrait of Marvin Gaye at the west end of the Marvin Gaye Trail. Near the bike share station. I should have replaced the missing grip and shifter grip before taking the picture but be assured the repairs were made.
