A Surprise Snow Day!

The Roaring Fork Valley has definitely been having some unusually warm weather lately, Nice..., but not ideal when there is still a month and a half of ski season left. Marty has been telling me and lots of other people that I am a snow snob since I have been a bit sad and complaining about the ski conditions lately. Yes it is true. I am most certainly a powder snob, which means I am a true blue powder ski girl.

We went to bed last knowing that we needed to wake up for a Tuesday morning in Kindergarten and P.E. This morning country music kept waking me up every time the alarm went off. I kept rolling over not wanting to get out of bed, it was so warm and cozy. Finally I dragged my tired bootie out of bed and started the caffeine machine. Seconds later, my phone, which the one time was not on my night stand it was in the guest bedroom with our friend Dave who is here visiting.
I rushed into the room to hear my teammates voice on the phone telling me the good news of no school. SNOW DAY!!!!!
I crawled back into bed, there was no sleeping, I was so excited for a snow day to enjoy with my husband in the POWDER, just what I ordered!
We skied from 9:20 a.m. to 4:30 p.m today only stopping for 20 minutes today and that was at 2:30. Thats how good the snow was, no stopping. Marty and I got first tracks today on several runs. Ski patrol was dropping ropes just in time for us to drop in and ski first. We were literally choking on snow all morning. It was so deep the snow was flying over our heads and into our mouths!
We had a fantastic day, of course we didn't have the camera, but I still had to write about our day. We met up with my brother in law, and some friends, and ripped the mountain all day.

So... our friend Dave. His flight was leaving Vail at 2:15. He couldn't not get in a little skiing on a powder day. Our friend Chris who was taking him to the airport took him skiing first. Dave missed his flight today by 5 minutes. He is all set to fly out tomorrow same time, but no skiing tomorrow for him:)

"The Bird"

So... a couple weeks ago Marty and I had a weekend trip planned with our friends to go ski at Snowbird in Utah. I unfortunately was on my death bed with influenza for 5 days. Needless to say we didn't get to go that weekend. However, it worked out our friends could go over Valentine's weekend. We packed our bags and skis and headed to Mormon country. Our friend Liz grew up in UT, and her boyfriend Jarrid worked for ski patrol at Snowbird for a few years. We got the ultimate tour of the mountain, and hit all the great spots to ski. For those of you that don't know about the snow in UT, well let me tell you it is unbelievable. The mountain gets over 500 inches of snow a season. This past week they received 6 feet of snow before we got there and then when we skied on Saturday and Sunday we were skiing in a fresh foot of snow. It was awesome skiing and good times. We can't wait to get back there!


Here we are...Our romantical Valentine's Day at "The Bird"! There is nobody else I would rather ski with than the love of my life.


Waiting in line for the tram to take us up to ski the "blower" snow. The tram carried 125 people up the mountain at one time. You cannot be super claustrophobic and ride in the tram.


CJ ripping up the pow in Upper Cirque.


This is Jarrid getting back in touch with the big avalanche gun. Yes, he used to shoot this off when he was on ski patrol!
Oh and the pic is certainly not out of focus, it is just snowing that hard!


Liz's glory shot as Marty called it.


Marty in "nipple deep blower snow"!


Carly riding on the magic carpet in the tunnel to get get to the back side of the mountain.

Carly skiing in Tiger Tail