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= Encounter with Baba Yaga on the Bull Gap Trail =

The air was warmer than expected when I cracked my window at the Bull Gap snow park.  I'd planned to continue driving to the back parking lot but on inspection, the snow was getting melty under the sun's warmth, so I opted to ski on the relative shade of the north west slope along the lower trail.  Stepping in and feeling the solid click of the bindings on my "new to me" skis, I thought of Wayne.  Walking down into his garage to tour the collection of potential skis for me, I'd felt what to me a particularly male type of bonding of entering another man's workshop.  And tho I will never fully share in Wayne's love of the intricacies of ski gear, I enjoyed listening to his description of the particulars of the design and state of the 3 sets of used skis from his collection which had brought me to mind.  There would have been a time as a boy when I would have tried to fake deep interest and