4/5/09

Day 41

Conditions: Snowy and cold
Location: Breckenridge, CO

We arrived into town yesterday afternoon with a plan: we would watch the State game and then go night skiing at Keystone for a few hours. The night skiing was imperative because it would give us the one extra day we need to get to fifty. Everything was going as planned; the Spartans even managed to win. Then, we found out that Keystone doesn’t have night skiing in April, they close it in March. Now we are left wondering if we will end up with the unforgivable forty nine days.

Today promised to be better. We woke up to a reported snow fall of seven inches. Unfortunately, when we reached the hill we found out that the seven inches was a 24 hour total, most of that snow came yesterday morning. We rolled our eyes and prepared for another day of disappointment.


Dirk waits for the Rocky Mountain super chair to open. The mountain waits in the background.


Luckily, there was plenty of snow left. Most of Breck was not even open yesterday, so the T-bar and Imperial chair were great. We hiked Lakechutes early in the day, and also made some great turns on George’s Thumb. All our morning runs were powder runs. We had an early lunch and hit the trees in the afternoon. By 3:00 our legs were toast and we called it a very good day.

Highlights:

- Despite yesterday’s frustrations, we were lucky to even get into Colorado. A crazy storm moved into the Colorado and Nebraska plains on Saturday afternoon closing the only two interstate highways into Colorado from the East. As of this morning (Sunday) they were still closed.
- Snow. For the past month we have ridden on ice, dirt, slush, corn snow, and a variety of other things that don’t really count as snow. It felt so good to make turns on soft corduroy. It’s easy to be good on real snow.


Our car after the drive through Nebraska. That's not snow; it's ice.


Lowlights:

- Lazy legs in the trees turned a fall into a backwards somersault which was stopped only by the trunk of a tree against my back leg. Luckily things weren’t too serious. As I told Dirk, I’ve hit trees harder than that before.

Après Ski:

We watched reality TV on VH1 and went to bed early.

Days to go: 9