A Tragedy

　　The story started when our leader, Ms. O. dropped her glove from the chairlift, Jersey Cream Express. She had the good grace to give it up and bought a replacement at Glacier Creek Lodge. On the next ride on the same chairlift, however, I found something from the chairlift which looked like her lost glove. I told her that and we decided to recover it, but the point was hard to access. We explored into the bush, but, , , . From now, I'll explain each picture below. The number stands for the order of the pictures.

1. The silhouette which looks like a bear is our leader, Ms. O. We looked for the glove around one of three posts of the chairlift, but in vain. This area wasn't packed and it was really hard to evacuate from. I managed to get out, but she was trapped in some heavy snow that had accumulated the previous night. At that time, she unfortunately twisted her right knee. We called for the rescue team.

2. A lady climbed up to us with her big skis on her shoulder. We were so surprised to see her physical strength because we expected that someone would ski down from uphill to us. Now, at first she positioned her skis with tips up crossing in the snow to show other skiers our existence on the ski slope. Next, she questioned Ms. O. about her ID, her condition and her medical history like drug allergies, and so on. At last, she started digging a grave-sized hole, and I couldn't understand what it was for.

3. Another staff member came to us with a toboggan. They put it in the hole and held it. I finally understood what she did. By the way, when hearrived, he asked her, "Did you hear a pop?" I learned the word "pop" at that time. Japanese has lots of onomatopoeic expressions and it makes it difficult for foreigners to learn Japanese. I knew that "pop" matched lots of Japanese words depicting sound.

4. The right knee of Ms. O. was about to be fixed by a knee brace.

5. Our leader is always really tough and stubborn, but she was silent with her eyes downcast. I deeply realized that she was a woman. (grin) However, she was apparently thinking of her job schedule after coming back to Japan. She wasn't depressed.

6. She was ready to be transferred to the base. Then I found us on the trail of a Black Diamond, called "Blowdown". Black Diamond means the most difficult as I wrote the other day. I wondered how they took her to the ambulance. The answer was simple. They schussed on the BLACK DIAMOND! Wow! Incredible. They seemed to schuss down to come across the Green (the easiest route) and Ms. O. was picked up by a snowmobile, which took her to Olympic Park, where she was put in the ambulance.

(Vocabulary)
odd 《[名]の前でのみ》(靴・ソックス・手袋などが) 片方だけの
odd socks/gloves 左右ばらばらのソックス［手袋］
have the good grace to 潔く～する
pack [他]〈雪・土など〉を押し固める
pack sth down ＜…＞を押し固める
Pack the soil down firmly. 土をしっかりと押し固めます．
twist [他]〈手首・足首など〉をくじく, ひねる, 捻挫(ねんざ)する
twist your ankle/knee/wrist 足首［ひざ，手首］をくじく
position (特定の位置に) …を置く, 配置する
Position the cursor before the letter you want to delete. 削除したい文字の前にカーソルを置きます．
position yourself 位置につく, 陣取る
onomatopoeia 擬音（語）, 擬声（語）, オノマトペ
toboggan təˈbɒgən a light wooden board with a curved front, used for sliding down hills covered in snow
stubborn 負けん気の強い
be silent with one's eyes downcast シュンとして黙っている
schuss ʃus 直滑降する; 直滑降