Barb

Finally drove up to see the progress on my cabin and order some kitchen cabinets. driving in my neighborhood On the drive up I was thinking I would check out the 4 x 4 road that goes up to the top of the hill to see if it would be skiable. Coincidentally, my new neighbors were at the base of it, putting on skins. They reported it wasn’t an epic ski down but it was fun and would be right outside my door. This is the start of the road The road up to my house is about an 8% grade so I could pretty much ski back down to my driveway.

^ agree! In room coffee is sacred. I am way too cheap to buy a $5 bottle of water though. I am a tap water gal wherever I go. *Except for Hawaii now I guess. My son tells me the military’s fuel tanks are leaking into the water supply (and have been for years). I I will have to break down and do bottled water if I go visit him. glad you had such a good time in AZ. Nice to see you so happy, I know that’s your favorite place.

I wonder if smaller mountains will start going independent again. I know Eldora is a shit show this season already. They have such limited parking that on weekends the Boulder County Sheriff puts up a road block at the high school. They say if you don’t get there by 7:45, don’t come until after 1 pm. Today the update was that they opened up the road at 2 pm and we’re letting 10-20 cars at a time go, then waiting for more cars to leave the lot. it would be cool if places like Eldora, Monarch, Loveland and Abasin, Sunlight and Ski Cooper had a combined pass.

North rim closed in winter unless you hike to it

Seems like PASR is full of good dad’s. ❤️

About 960 sf. Roughly same size as CB

Yay for windows! Delivered yesterday exactly one month after they were supposed to be delivered. they should be all installed by Friday, then on to siding! random picture of the lumber truck. I am sure these delivery guys absolutely hate me 😂

@momskeeztoo what run are you on that is 50 degrees? I have used that app before but never found it glitchy.

I’ll answer that; Eel avocado roll and Philadelphia roll.

I will def be going for an extended stay. May leave 19th or a few days later. Some last minute renters would like to extend their stay. Have to decide to take the $ or tell them no.

Hopefully heading out 1/19 for an extended stay. They got about 8 feet in 10 days.

I just read that Crested Butte put a sign up saying they are trying to hire liftees, but in the meantime, the extreme terrain is now open if you hike to it.

https://coloradosun.com/2021/12/31/labor-shortage-vail-resorts-ski-areas-understaffed-omicron/?fbclid=IwAR0ZkYC4iXXGnNT_RltZia2ORjIoXg9l5h8oshtwZfNIJ3mO0qOhvyDb3Zw

Shit getting real here. My Jeep is at a mechanic in the next town over that is literally burning to the ground. We tried to pick it up when they called to say it was done and in the span of an hour the fire got insane and we were turned around by police. I have a feeling it’s not gonna make it. horrific watching live footage of homes burning. 100 structures burned to the ground so far. The fire is only about 4 hours old

I bought one exactly a year ago and have not flown it. It is forbidden in so many places around here.

Insane 80mph winds here today. Blew over a big tree across the street and one of my fence gates is hanging on by a thread. Several fires burning around town from downed power lines.

Glad for you! When are you going?

Got out for a little ski tour in Nederland today. Half way there I realized I forgot my skins, D’oh! Had to turn around and grab them. Nice seeing some snow finally. The last 1/2 mile to the parking lot wasn’t plowed so we had to skin a bit up the road. only saw a handful of people, no wind (amazing) and temps about 18 degrees. Did about 3.75 miles round trip which means my dog probably did double that. He was pooped. i need to find some new low angle areas. This place is kind of a pain because the last mile or so out you have to put your skins back on. It was all work with the powder so we earned our lunch at Khatmandu on the way out of town.

We got take out Chinese and when we opened it up it was the wrong order. Nothing looked appealing and it was too far to drive back. I grabbed a full size snickers from the mini bar where we are staying and called it good.

Crested Butte got 20” in 24 hours. Whoever is renting my place is gonna have a good day.

Yeah if I have to stop I usually do it on the downhill side of a slow sign, to have a bit of protection.

Went to Eldora today. They are now only allowing close in parking for 3 plus occupants in the car. So we had to walk a bit. Beautiful warm sunny day. Crowds were low but since such limited terrain opened it felt a bit busy. The whole backside of the mountain is still closed. Since they had a recent death of someone going too fast and slamming into another person, they had ski patrol perched mid run on each run. I actually appreciated this because I have heard it has been nuts everywhere this season. That being said, my 6th run, I was skiing on the side of the trail making small turns; I hear a snowboarder that sounded close but I thought, “they always sound loud.” With that I see him in my periphery and he came in hot, his board slammed against my ski edge, then he pushed off of me with his elbow. I honestly don’t know how I stayed upright. I stopped, a bit freaked, and yelled “you motherfucker!” As loud as I could. He didn’t stop, didn’t apologize. When I got to the bottom Shannon happened to be there and the line was getting longer so I told her that was a sign for me to be done for the day. Weather was beautiful but conditions were meh, we really need some fresh snow.

My first real ski day of the season. I forgot my phone and felt so weird not having it. So only a couple pics my friends took. Went to Copper, 10 degrees pretty much all day. The Dew Tour was there so things were kinda crowded at the base, but not they runs. The lift kept stopping which was annoying so one run it took about 30 min between the line and the 3 stops while we were on it. Copper has a lot of terrain opened and the coverage was good the snow quality was not great we have had a lot of wind here so that is part of the reason very scraped off. Still a super fun first day

Aspen is one hour 10 min. But if I ever get better at BC stuff this whole area is like a playground. https://www.marbleski.org/ In the summer when Kebler pass is open, CB is only about an hour plus and yeah construction costs have been nuts. This will probably be my last project.

My guys got the roof dried in just in time for this latest storm. Gonna head down early January once all the windows are in. Can’t wait to lay eyes on it. My builder said there was a bald Eagle hanging around all day. Property goes uphill and eventually reaches forest land. Although that lot belongs to someone else I have heard they live out of state and only come every few years. There is enough space to ski it on a makeshift 4 x 4 road. Only a few hundred feet of very but the steepness of a black resort run.