Spring Rituals

I am with a neophyte skier who thought he had skied all his life and knew all about skiing!
I am realizing that he never knew the secret rituals done in the Spring!
I am now teaching him the many "things" older skiers taught me many years ago! This you can not get on internet, on Utubes, on TV!
When I get back from this "difficult" task of teaching him all the secret Spring rituals I will post most of them, however one I must post now since it might save some Spring skier's lives!

In the Spring when those snow banks start to melt, when the parking lots begins to show sand , mud and puddles of water there is one ritual all neophytes,tadpoles, gumers,beginers,,,,, call them what you want must do to show respect to the "older" skiers!

The tadpole must buy 2-4 Coronas! For you uninitiated this is ver special Mexican beer in which you introduce slivers of lime just before drinking!
Then you must find a very cold stream or snow bank! Introduce bottles into very cold medium at 6 AM and allow to "age" for several hours! Do not move! Do not stir!
Just allow mother nature do its work! Slowly into this bottle will seep spring memories, slowly into this bottle will seep the spring smells! Slowly into this bottle will seep that "melting wood smell"!No one knows how yet,,but slowly into this bottle will seep all the memories of the runs you did that day!

At 5 Pm when all the "others " are in the smelly, loud bar ,,,the tadpole goes and gets the beer out of the stream and presents it to the "older" skier as a sign of respect! Then the two bottles are touched at the neck and this binds the two skiers for life, since the memories of that ski day flow into your throat! The cold beer with its secret infusion of spring smell, memories and taste enters the body and brings you into another plane! Another dimension in which you both share until next year!
That quiet moment together with the Corona is a fitting ending to a perfect spring skiing day!
Show respect to nature, to skiing and introduce this ritual in your life! It will change you!