Ted's final day of skiing was at A-Basin, testing out some of the new runs and chutes in the newly opened Montezuma area. I was spending the day at the Silverthorne library and rec center. Did I mention the dislocation of my shoulder while on an early morning run at Winter Park a few days before Ted arrived? Anyway I was out of commission.
And,then, on his last run of the day, Ted also proved Newton's First Law of Motion (or at least the second part of it), that is, "...an object in motion tends to stay in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force."
In Ted's case the unbalanced force was the surprising appearance of the opposite wall of a chute that he did not expect when he made a jump on a downhill run. In my case it was an bump of snow and ice on an otherwise well groomed run. So there we were at the Frisco clinic with matching slings, so clearly members of the same family.
The picture was kindly taken by a young woman whose boyfriend had also just arrived from A-Basin with a broken collarbone. We, by comparison, were in relatively good shape.
