Miserable Boots

　　The ski areas of the Whistler and Blackcomb mountains are  large enough and are seldom crowded. It means that the skiing distance per unit time will increase. There's no comparison between Japanese and Canadian ski areas. After 2 hours of skiing, we took a rest at the biggest lodge in the midst of the skiing slopes.

　　When I took my skis off, I felt something pop, but I didn't mind it at all. I just wanted to take a seat and have a bottle of beer as soon as possible. When I entered the lodge, I surely heard the pop, but I ignored it again, imagining that ice or something attached my boots had fallen off. At the exact moment, however, an uneasy sensation around my right toes occurred. Look at the first picture, and you'll see that the tip of my right boot was blown away. Having examined the opposite boot, I found a crack shown in the second picture. I was so astonished. My friends, including people around us, told me that I would be severely injured if the crack had been made during skiing and in that sense, I was lucky. I realized that.

　　I went down by gondola to the village and bought some new ones. As I walked, the boots fell to pieces and finally they became what appears in the last picture.

(Vocabulary)
there's no comparison   (話)  比べものにならない
pop  ポン［パン，パチッ］と音を立てる
The wood sizzled and popped in the fire.  火の中でまきがシューシュー，パチパチと音を立てた．
uneasy  (人が)不安な, 心配な; 気にかかる, 不自然な

Comments

[Shiroi Tora]

Wow...that is a pictorial definition of the word "blowout".