Early Bird Special

Well this morning I did something I don't normally do I got up at 5:45 and hiked up our lovely ski area for some Powder turns. If you are not skiing there is absolutely no reason to get up before 7! which reminds me of my younger years, growing up in Colorado even when I was there gave us quite the opportunity to get up at the butt crack and start the slog up to the ski area or to Loveland or Berthed pass. Most of the time with my dad listening to Fleetwood mac or Dan Fogelberg and driving the speedy sparrow. And thank you Stu for all the memories in the purple mini van (ya whatever we know it was purple) good times. Like that one time we ran out of wiper fluid and I had to scrape the window with a spatula that for some reason was left in the back seat oh ya and never mind pulling over let alone slowing down there was powder and so I leaned out and with spatula in hand scraped the windows while Stu drove 70 mph down I 70 not a bad day skiing either if I remember correctly. Oh man there are many more were that story came from if you care to here more I will divulge more when the time is right, when the PBR is flowing and the friends are plentiful.


So back to this morning. I didn't look at the thermometer because I didn't want to know how cold it was I just knew it was cold so I took all the warm gear and headed out. we hiked up to the top of Coal creek and then skied the back of the mountain it was pretty good about 6-8 in of new snow over night and some of the 1 foot from last week was still good. Needless to say I was a little late for work this morning but the boss was cool about it so that was nice.
oh ya when I got home the thermometer read 5 degrees, it was pretty chilly.