Replying to I skid at Brighton today

I skid at Brighton today. It was my first day there since they opened. There were many jibs, mini rocks, and snowboarders, one of whom was my good friend and also drove me up the big cottonwood that afternoon. We shredded the entire open part of the mountain. After sketchily releasing for seemingly no reason, my binding held tight and i was able to ski-jib my way across the mountain amongst the snowboarding horde. Dropping in way too fast over weird rolling speed bumps I meandered into My-Oh-My, where Brighton, during peak season, has a small 3 pack of flat-ish jumps that are good for regular spins up to 540 and front flips. Currently, there are no jumps, instead you are treated with sketchy flat-ish rollers with landings made of rock, ruts, and ice. Hooking the flat traverse into Candyside (and reliving my 'Head For The Hills' tree-squeeze dreams) I was rewarded with a jump onto a barrell on its side, a random box with seemingly no purpose, and then a red box that was actually pretty fun with a decent ollie-step on approach. From then you pick between the traverse from rocky-treeroot hell and a decent lefting groomer that is fun to ski backwards. Finally near the flats at the bottom there is a mini-jib playground. Personally I found it really funny because mini-jibs are kind of like that, you know, difficult to take seriously because you know soon there will be a real park and some actual order to all this pre-season chaos. Amongst all the no-jump features there was one box that the skiers seemed to actually like. I remember a kid in a nuggets jersey and not much else from that point. I will say lift service pre-season at Brighton is best enjoyed with PBR.