01-19-09 Skiing Day 1:
Our drive from Estes Park (where we were staying) to Winter Park (where we were skiing) was a bit further than expected as the road we intended to take was closed for the winter and we didn't double check that as we are stupid Virginians. It worked out though, the drive was just over 100 miles each way and took around 2.5 to 3 hours.
So we use my laptop as a alarm clock. But Apparently Colorado is in a different time zone than Virginia, and I omitted changing my laptop's time when we got there, so when I set my alarm for 6:00am we ended up getting up at 4am. It took us 27 minutes to realize "holy crap are we up too early."
Sunrise on the way out of Estes Park.
As we drove down the system of mountain roads on the way to Winter Park we came across this foxy fox. It wasn't too concerned with us and we got pretty close to it with the car which gave us the chance to see how utterly beautiful it was. This was the best picture we got as we were distracted by the foxiness of the fox when we were upclose.
This is at the midpoint of Winter Park.. Seriously, it goes A LOT further up. Crazy.
Another shot from the middle of the mountain.
There is a "Chili Shack" at the midpoint of the mountain. Kyde fed this little bird a Dorito. I'm pretty sure they are best friends.
Kyde coming down from her "black diamond adventure." She lived, bearly.
On a lift, I assume.
Between Winter Park and Estes Park there is literally NOTHING. We ended up frightengly low on gas on the way back in the middle of the night. I'm pretty sure if the last 10 miles hadn't been downhill we would have been spending the night lost on the middle of nowhere with no cell signal. Thank you gravity!
NEXT!