It was VERY VERY VERY cold.\u00a0 Now, we like to ski, but not that much!\u00a0 We slept in until about 9:30.\u00a0 We had decided that we would drive the hour over to Snowbird today because it would be an hour later and an hour warmer when we got there.\u00a0 Also it is supposed to snow Tuesday so we will ski closer to home that day.\u00a0 Tomorrow we are going to ski Solitude.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Today we skied Snowbird.\u00a0 When we got into the car it was -5 degrees!\u00a0 Ahhhh\u2026\u00a0 but it was sunny.\u00a0 We took our time.\u00a0 We even ventured over to this really cool curvy road into the mountains.\u00a0 It turns out to be this VERY exclusive gated neighborhood.\u00a0 We turned around and came back down.\u00a0 We did take some nice pictures though.\u00a0\u00a0 We cruised on over to Snowbird.\u00a0 It was a very nice drive, clear bright sunshine, no traffic, and the gps knew where we were going.\u00a0 We got there and we were immediately confused as to where to go and what to do.\u00a0 We managed to ask several people where to get tickets and the lodge and so forth.\u00a0 We had to take a shuttle to the main lodge.\u00a0 The good news is that the temp got all the way to 20 degree in the bright sun.\u00a0 the bad news is that the mountain reported 7 degrees.\u00a0 But no wind.\u00a0 We managed to get our tickets and the ticket guy told us where to ski.\u00a0 I dropped my skis in a rack so we could change and I turned around and Marlo was nowhere to be found\u2026\u00a0 She had disappeared on me before so I figured that she had done it again.\u00a0 I tried to think of where she might have gone.\u00a0 I went to the second floor and looked in the caf\u00e9.\u00a0 I went to the first floor and looked in the locker area.\u00a0 I finally went to the place where I had last seen her.\u00a0 I was pretty peeved at this point.\u00a0 Well it turns out that she never went anywhere and I was the one who disappeared\u2026.\u00a0 Marlo, not so happy.\u00a0 Opps\u2026\u00a0 sorry\u2026
\nWe got a locker and I was chatting with some guy that was familiar with the mountain.\u00a0 He gave us the opposite advise about skiing and turned out to be SO right!\u00a0 We had an AWESOME day of skiing.\u00a0 We took the tram to the top and went to the sunny side of the mountain.\u00a0 There were still lots of powder left from the day before.\u00a0 I even managed to cut some new tracks.\u00a0 We got off the tram and Marlo was a little intimidated.\u00a0 I hid that fact.\u00a0 This was a big place with some serious slopes\u2026\u00a0 Marlo wanted to stick to the blues.\u00a0 I wanted to do a little more.\u00a0 We separated on the trek over to the back side.\u00a0 I ended up running into a bunch of cliff warning signs\u2026\u00a0 ahhh!\u00a0 And I forgot my cell phone\u2026\u00a0 I managed to survive.\u00a0 Good thing.\u00a0 It was the first run!\u00a0 We then took the lift up to the top of the back side.\u00a0 There were two ways down.\u00a0 One around the blues into the shade and one big black trail back down to the lift.\u00a0 It did not look that steep until we got to the top.\u00a0 IT WAS STEEP!!!\u00a0 I sucked it up and down I went.\u00a0 I took it easy and managed to get down without incident.\u00a0 I met Marlo at the bottom.\u00a0 We had walky-talkies so we could communicate.\u00a0 It worked out well, because we could hear them though our jackets.\u00a0 I would just tell her to look left or right and there we were.\u00a0 One time we were really far apart but she could still hear me without the radio\u2026\u00a0 she just yell that she can hear me.\u00a0 Another time she was sitting just below a ridge and some nice guy just pointed to us\u2026
\nSo my second run down the steep mountain did not go quite as well\u2026\u00a0 see my bindings are not quite tight enough.\u00a0 Some say that I don\u2019t ski with much finesse the rest\u00a0 say that I don\u2019t ski with any\u2026\u00a0 I have strong legs.\u00a0 Stronger then my release setting.\u00a0 I pull out sometimes when I could keep going.\u00a0 Crash number one\u2026 not too bad the ski just let go.\u00a0 I climb back up and without much trouble I get then back on.\u00a0 Well I am feeling pretty good about now and decide to push a bit\u2026\u00a0 not my best plan\u2026\u00a0 I come cranking down and make a hard cut.\u00a0 The powder sucks up my skis and decides not to let them go.\u00a0 I launch out of my bindings.\u00a0 I don\u2019t twist out, I don\u2019t go forward out, I pop straight out of both skis at the same time.\u00a0 I fly straight down\u00a0 the mountain in a lovely arch that puts my head well below my feet.\u00a0 Fortunately my head gets driven into the snow all the way up to my shoulders and my feet continue the arch on down the mountain.\u00a0 At no time did my body bend at all.\u00a0 This was all done completely stretched out.\u00a0 I may have yelled and obscenity just before my head was driven into the snow.\u00a0 At the culmination of my perfect round out, I landed on my feet just about two body lengths below my skis.\u00a0 I climbed back up and got my skis back on.\u00a0 It was a spectacular fall.
\nApparently, Marlo had decided to try out the crashing thing that run as well, so we could compare stories at the lift.\u00a0 Turns out that she ended up chasing her helmet down the slope a ways.
\nIt turned out not to be terribly cold.\u00a0 We were well dressed and managed to stay warm enough.\u00a0 Of course I sweated and got cold and hot and my fingers froze a couple of time.\u00a0 We still managed to have a great day.\u00a0 We went to the warming hut before our decent.\u00a0 They did not even have a map in the place\u2026.\u00a0 We skied down, got the shuttle and got back to our car.
\nWe decided to go back to the Spur to get some buffalo ribs and find out what happened to Scuba.\u00a0 She ended up eating and drinking and trying to get the bar to pay for her, but she ended up paying and going on her way.\u00a0 She made an impression, because the bartender that we talked to was not the one that was there\u2026\u00a0 the ribs were good!\u00a0 We cruised some shops and talk to an artist Gary Johnson.\u00a0 He does some really detailed work.\u00a0 We have to look him up.\u00a0 Marlo bought a card from him.
\nThen we went to the Mart. And got some stuff.\u00a0 We got home and saw a bunch of people in our hot tub.\u00a0 We decide to check it out.\u00a0 It was -3 degrees out\u2026\u00a0 but hey other people were in there.\u00a0 Well the heaters could not keep up and the water was not hot.\u00a0 We froze!\u00a0 Home to a nice hot shower.\u00a0 We got the mummy movie at red box and managed to get the dvd player working.\u00a0 The tv was not even a stereo tv so we heard the movie from the right\u2026
\nOff to bed.
\nTomorrow we ski Solitude.\u00a0 EVERYONE says\u2026\u00a0 ahhh Solitude you will like that so we are ready.\u00a0\u00a0 Watching the weather channel\u2026\u00a0 snow tomorrow!\u00a0 Tuesday we ski the canyons\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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