Two day ago, my friend Dirk and I met and ski together in order to celebrate his birthday, but also to reminisce on the 12th anniversary of our record breaking vertical record at Deer Valley (112,750 vertical feet in one day). 

Nothing of the sort was on the agenda that day, just to ski the delightful powder that was accumulating and waiting for us all over the resort. 

As Dirk confided in me “It would be difficult to do as well with the new electronic gates”, and I like the thought to be “off the hook” so to speak in having to attempt to equal or even surpass a record that my aging body would no longer appreciate or be ready for