The last couple weeks have been pretty crazy with the holidays. My brother came with his family plus my wife’s grandparents were visiting. I made one trip to the mountains with my brother and some of the rest of my family that lives here and another one with the in-laws. Unfortunately I got injured on the first trip, so the 2nd trip wasn’t as much fun.
On the first trip, my brother and I skied almost up to the Wild Irishman Mine near Montezuma. It’s part of loop 7 of Montezuma’s Revenge. It brought back lots of memories from the when I raced it. Things like the guy I found on loop 7 laying across a pile of rocks with his eyes shut. It turned out he had gotten his map out to figure out which way to go and fell asleep.
After cross-country skiing we met several more from my family for a night in Idaho Springs. The next day my other brother also skied with us at Loveland Basin. Their kids went to ski school at Loveland Valley. It was the first time in over 10 years that I had skied at a ski area. It made me remember why I ski in the backcountry.
The 2nd trip was to Estes Park at the entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park. We left in a our 2nd big snowstorm in a little over a week. The roads were pretty bad between Colorado Springs and Denver. Estes had over a foot of fresh powder and all I could do was look at it and not play in it. I’ll write another post on what happened.
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