I am not fully cleared from ACL rehab yet, but I plan to be this year (2021). It is totally possible. I still have much to check off, but it will happen this year. I feel confident enough that I bought a ski pass for next winter (winter 2021-2022) because I wanted to take advantage of the pre-season sale. I haven't had a resort pass in probably 12 years, but I am guessing I'm going to be doing 1-2 runs here and there to get my knee used to turning demands.
This is not because all of a sudden my knee is feeling great to give me this confidence - it's because I'm slowly chipping away at all the stages - despite the anterior knee pain. This was the last weekend to take advantage of the closed park road at Grand Teton National Park. Each April, they stop ski grooming operations, snowplow the road 15 mile inner park road, and allow bikes, rollerblades, skateboards, strollers, dogs on leashes to utilize the road for one month before opening it to cars (Yellowstone does a similar thing, but much longer distances, also on my list!). I've wanted to do this for many years after seeing several foot high snow banks along the road with people wearing T-shirts while riding bikes - bliss! It wasn't quite like that this year (not as much snow). Here has been the hold up:
Finally this was the year! I am back on a mountain bike after a 2 year wrist hiatus and I've done many long rides just to make sure I am able to do this ride (which turned out to be a pretty easy ride). Temps were great, still had to bundle up, but overall such a fun experience! We were able to hike to a few of the lakes too. We even did a ski tour the day prior. Just had to watch out for grizzly bears! They were coming out of hibernation (we did not see any, but had our bear spray on us).
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AuthorA 45 year old active female who tore her ACL in January 2017 (at the age of 40). Reconstructive surgery in February 2017 with bone-patellar tendon-bone autograft. Archives
November 2022
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