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1357 days ago
Back to work after a week in Steamboat. Trip didn't start out great - first I got a flat tire on my car the night before we were leaving. I am grateful it only happened as I drove into the garage, and not at work / gym / store, but still... Then we missed our flight... Woman at check-in gave us grief for having "items of clothing" in the boot bag, so we had to negotiate with her for several minutes - no one is saying anything about us then having to hurry. Expedia showed the flight leaving at 7:30. We get there at 7:10, and the flight has taken off! It turned out it was scheduled to leave at 7:15 (David had even called Expedia day before to check on time - lesson learned, go directly to airline...), but they decided to take off early and pulled out at 7:09. I find that very strange - we were checked in at the airport, and had checked in 5 pieces of luggage - I thought flights weren't meant to take off w/o the passengers of checked bags??? Anyway, no other flights available ...
1456 days ago
Snow has dumped over the Pacific Northwest. Went up to Baker for the first time for the season Sun, Nov 13 - earliest I've ever skied/boarded! David and I also headed up to Whistler for Thanksgiving. I boarded 3 out of the 4 days - not fit/strong enough to keep going day after day - need to work on that. Whistler was OK - when we got to the village there was no snow in the village or on the hills coming down to the village - but it was OK on top, and it got colder and snowed while we were there, so each day was better then the last. I'm still a wimp at the traverses (narrow/flat)...
1689 days ago
Took the day off and went up to Crystal - hadn't been there all season due to lack of snow, but with the recent snow fall and a snow report of 4-6 inches of new snow overnight, we headed up. Arrived 9:15, which was pretty early to be us. Pretty bare at the bottom, but once we got up Queen Express - it was heaven! It had snowed all night, and the sun broke through when we were there. I guess some of the slopes hadn't been groomed since Sundays' snowstorm, because they were entirely untouched and deep!
