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Blue Skies
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| From Steamboat 2010 |
The sky was overcast when we set out to go up the mountain to ski this morning. But it didn't take long for the lifts to carry us through the clouds and onto a bright, sunny mountaintop. We skied most of the day on the upper mountain, in the beautiful sunny conditions, though the morning clouds burned off and the valley got sun, too.
It was another morning of exploring new places on the mountain, seeing if we could handle more challenging terrain than we previously were comfortable with. It was fun, but it was also hard work, and we all worked up a good sweat by lunch time. Later in the afternoon, we worked our way across the upper mountain, making a number of long runs, before heading down to the lower mountain for our final runs of the day.
We decided to take advantage of today's perk for returning customers, which was a GPS recorder that tracked our movements around the resort all day. At the end of the day, the data was downloaded, and the information is available for us to review on a website. We covered 31 miles today, with a total vertical distance of 32K feet! Our daughters managed to hit 35 mph on a couple of their runs. The website shows our skiing on a map of the resort and can play back our travels for the day. Fun! We probably will pick up another one on Sunday, so we can compare our days.
Tonight we went back up the mountain for a ride on a snowcat pulled sleigh. There was a bright full moon over the mountain, with clear skies, so that it was a beautiful ride around the mountaintop. There were dozens of people hiking up the mountain with their skis, ready to ski in the moonlight. I was hoping to see some wildlife, but I'm sure the noise of the snowcat made that entirely unlikely.
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