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Chester's Somewhat Daily Report - 12/9/03
[Repost for those of you that don't go to rsa anymore]
Good morning. Yesterday I had the pleasure of taking a mid-week day off. The morning was spent at my step-son's school for their version of Tiny Tim's Christmas Carol. I confess, it is disturbing to me that they do musicals instead of plays. When I was in elementary school, we did the whole Christmas Carol production. Guess I am just biased against musicals. Oh well. This kept Jen and I occupied until 10:30am (a half hour longer than it was supposed to). Then we went home, got changed, and were off to the mountains. Copper Mountain to be exact. The roads weren't too bad. I-70 was icy in spots, but the Jeep handled it just fine. I bought a set of BFG AT's this summer, and was totally impressed by them with the recent snowfall we had in Denver (on Monday). We were on the mountain by 1pm, with free tickets courtesy of the Warren Miller movie Journey. It was at this point that I made a very poor decision. I seriously misjudged Jennifer's ability to jump right back on the skis where she left off last season. I took her up the Super Bee, and we started to go down Upper Andy's Encore. The steep face on top, with bumps, was a bit much for her on her first run of the season. Unfortunately the other options for getting down were all closed. We had to get down the face, then Collage to take Easy Road down to the top of the American Eagle. From there we took Rhapsody and Main Vein down. She did really well the whole way, but that first pitch took a lot out of her. We did some runs off the American Flyer after that, then called it a day. She did really well on these runs, and I think she has her skiing legs back under her now. But I really screwed up by putting her on Andy's right away. Valuable lesson learned here. As for the general condition of Copper and the snow, it was pretty nice. As you would expect in early season, there were some spots that were getting scraped through. I didn't see any huge patches of dirt though, so that's a good thing. The mountains are supposed to get snow this weekend, so I think they will be in good shape. It was one of the colder days I can remember up there, even under the clear blue sky. The new camera seemed to work fine under the cold temps (my hands were failing before the camera!). I am processing the pics now, so I'll let you know where to view them when I get that done. Work comes first today sadly. The powder was skiied off well before we got there, so I doubt there are any bite-me pics in the batch anyhow. Although, given the fact that I got out for mid-week skiing, that may warrant a bite me anyhow... Have a good day. -- Chester Bullock, Ethical, custom website hosting, design and programming Tenxible Solutions, http://www.tenxible.com Web Based Autoresponder and DRIP system, http://www.toolsre.com AIM: tenxible YahooIM: ccb247 |
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