Go Skiing with Friends!
This past week, we spent a few days in beautiful Crested Butte, Colorado skiing with our friends Christy and Corey. We drove to GC on Saturday, stayed the night and made the final trek to Crested Butte on Sunday. We rented a cozy condo that was nestled amongst hundreds of other condos on the mountain. Here are a few views from our balcony...
Sunday night, we ventured into town for dinner and a little browsing. There weren't too many shops still open by the time we got down there, but it was still fun to walk around. The actual town of Crested Butte is very cute and quaint. We forgot to take the camera with us, so we didn't get any pictures.
We got up early Monday morning and headed to the slope. I was a bit nervous because I hadn't been skiing in 15 years (!), but I was ready to go...uncomfortable boots and all.
Here we are right after we got off of the first lift on the first day...I'm still standing!
The first run, a green, went pretty well. I didn't fall and I felt like I had my feet under me. So, we moved on to a blue. The slopes were a little icy because it hadn't snowed in a couple of days, so they were moving rather fast. I got a little bit nervous and a lot frustrated as the day went on. I felt somewhat out of control and found myself snow-plowing, which KILLED my legs. Then, I felt like I was holding up the group, so I got annoyed and frustrated with myself and by the time we made our last run before lunch, I was ready to quit! At that point, Brandon hung back to wait on me and we stopped about midway to the mid-mountain restaurant and I just about broke down in tears. At that point, I think Brandon was questioning my toughness and wishing he would have married someone a little more fearless and adventurous.
Once we finally made it to our lunch stop I walked in, sat down and took off my boots. Brandon and I then proceeded to make plans to sell my lift ticket for the next day and I would spend the day in the spa. As we continued to rest, my attitude began to change a little and I was willing to give it another try. Brandon and I skied the rest of the day with each other while our friends went off and did some harder runs. I finally quit snow plowing and was actually enjoying myself a little more.
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While Brandon and I were skiing together in the afternoon, he decided to take a run through a terrain park. I skied down to the end to film him with our Flip camera and then I proceeded to erase the video because I had on my big gloves :( I felt so bad!
We ended the day around 3:00 and made our way back to our condo where we all just pretty much crashed!! We made dinner at home that evening and played a few games before calling it quits rather early.
The next morning, we got up and pretty much went through the same motions as the day before. Surprisingly, I wasn't as sore as I anticipated so I was ready to go. It had snowed quite a bit over night and was still snowing when we got to the base so we had fresh snow, which was great! However, I was determined to ski greens all morning and after the first run of practically pulling ourselves the entire way, we decided to do blues. Christy and I split off from the boys and did some blues which was actually pretty fun. We would ski a little ways, take a break, ski some more, etc. etc. We met up with the boys for an early lunch and by this time, the snow was really coming down. It was actually almost white-out conditions, so we took an extra long lunch break and then split up into couples again after lunch. The conditions were not getting much better so Brandon and I did a couple more runs together and then we all called it quits. We met up at the base restaurant/bar for a refresher before heading back to the condo for the evening.
We got up super early on Wednesday to drive home because most of us had to work the next day so we wanted to get an early start to our twelve hour drive! All in all, we had a great time and I've now decided I need to go skiing more than once every 15 years!
