4/9/09

Day 45

Conditions: Rock hard and cold
Location: Vail, CO

Ugh. Not all days are created equal.

Temps got up to 45 yesterday, and it was only 20 degrees when we left the condo this morning. That means one thing: the soft, mashed potato snow from yesterday was now a hard crust of virtually unrideable snow.

We went to Vail on the chance that we would hook up with my cousin Lindsey. The forcast predicted 40 degrees, but it didn’t get even close to that, which meant we were both miserably cold. Dirk seemed to deal with it well; I just whined until Dirk gave me his facemask.

All we found at Vail was hard snow. Even the groomers were icy. To make things worse, Dirk just got his board “ground down” making traverses very difficult. We stuck it out as long as we could, but we still called it pretty early.

Highlights:

- Warning up at the Two Elks Lodge at the top of China Bowl
- Calling it at 12:30

Lowlights:

- Last night the news predicted 4-8 inches for this morning. Way to get our hopes up. We got zero inches, and even a few could have really softened things up.

Après Ski:

We shopped in Vail for a while, and Dirk found a few things. We ate lunch at a restaurant that was right out of a theme park. It was German themed and the poor waitresses had to wear ridiculous costumes. It was something out of Chef Ramsay's kitchen nightmares.

Back in Breck, we ate pizza for dinner and started packing.

Days to go: 5