Berlin Road

     This was a crazy weekend to say the least. My roommate Ladas, me, and our friend Bobby decided to send it to sugarloaf for the night after a great day of riding at loon. We ended up leaving loon around 6pm, we had no place to stay, we would figure something out when we got to the mountain. The main focus on our minds was being at the mountain bright and early the next morning to shred. About an hour into the ride we already had no service. Naturally Ladas and me were making jokes telling bobby he better not crash, after all we were out in the boonies with no service. About 2 and half hours into the trip the GPS told us to take a right onto Berlin road. We could see that the GPS was just taking us in a circle that connected back to the road that we were on but we had nothing to loose. Maybe this really was the way to get to Sugarloaf. When we got on this road we could see that it was a dirt road, there was a thin layer of snow covering it and you could tell by the banks on the side that it had been recently plowed. We keep driving for about a mile, all of us intrigued about where it would take us, the further we went, the darker it got and the more the snow covered the road. As we came up to a fork the GPS told up “please take a right on Berlin road” what the hell we are already on Berlin road but we took the turn anyways. The next thing that we saw was a sign on the ground that said “road narrows one lane road”. It all happened so quickly, we came up to this narrow road and before we could even make a decision of weather we could turn back Bobby was already on the road. We were just going to keep on keeping on until we arrived at Sugarloaf. This narrow road turned out to not be a road at all, it was a snowmobile trail and there was no turning back. A: because the road was too narrow with ditches on each side. B: because we were in 2 feet of snow and we were afraid that if we stopped we would get stuck. As we kept going we could hear the snow rubbing up against the undercarriage of the Subaru. We were swerving back and fourth barley avoiding the ditches on either side of us. The next thing we know we are at the top of a huge hill, it felt like a slow motion roller coaster that was of the tracks and could crash at any second. We finally made it down the hill, but had no time to feel any relief. In front of us we faced a hill of equal size and to no ones surprise the car stopped. We sat in the car as bobby tried spinning the tiers but it was not moving. The first thing I did was told Ladas to call 911, we had no other options at this point. Unfortunately we forgot that you couldn’t call 911 when you have no cell phone service. Bobby decided it was worth a try to dig us out, we couldn’t split up because there were only 3 of us. I cracked open a red bull, put on my winter jacket, got the board from the roof rack and started to dig. After about an hour of digging we decided to try to turn it around. I was directing in the Back and Ladas was at the front. We managed to pull a 14-point turn and turned the car around. Now we had to get the car all the way back up the hill. Bobby had to stay in the tracks we made on the way down. We could see how many close calls we had almost going off the road on the way there. As we were making it up this hill I realized we had a shot to get out of this mess. About ¾ way up the hill a deer about the size of our car bolted in front of us across the trail. We didn’t hit it and made it up the hill. Once we reached the dirt road it felt like we were driving on a newly paved highway. After that 2-hour delay of Berlin road we ended up making it to sugarloaf. We found a room at the Sugarloaf Resort Hotel right on the mountain thanks to Bobby’s dad’s credit card. And survived our journey through berlin road.

            As for this weeks Movie, My recommendation is live free of die-hard. This is a great action movie. Bruce Willis plays the Ultimate badass who saves the country in Bruce Willis Fashion. I do not want to give away too much about the movie but I would give it 4 stars out of five. Let me know what you think of the movie.