Elevation Day One
I’ll skip by the 12 hour journey, which involved the Super Shuttle at 430am, a first class flight from BWI to LAX, and then a 5 hour drive thru the California desert to the mountain resort city of Mammoth Lakes, CA. I met my friend Jeff, who now lives in Joplin, MO, at LAX. Catching up with him, as well as singing along with ABBA, Scissor Sisters, and Erasure helped get me in the mood for the week of gayness, as well as make the 5 hours (almost) fly by.
We arrived at our condo (see photos) at 5pm, just in time to take a quick nap before heading to the first elevation event. We got to Lakanuki, a tiki bar, about 8, which was an hour before the official event began. (And who said queens aren’t punctual.) I had a delicious ahi tuna sandwich for dinner and began watching the boys start to arrive. It was fun trying to guess who was with Elevation, and who was clueless. It was a small crowd the first night ,of only about 75. Everyone left their attitudes down at the lower elevations and was super friendly. There was one boy in particular, whom we shall call Pretentious, who although it was clear thought very highly of himself (and rightfully so, as he was smokin’), chatted with us for a while (though it was mostly about himself). Jeff and I made friends with several of the hard-core skiers (and drinkers) who got there early. After 3 hours of meet and greet, we drove back to our condo and turned in so as to prepare for our first day of skiing.
