Thursday, February 25, 2010

Winter Park Trip

There are only a few days left of the annual week long Winter Park trip.  Things have gone well so far, the snow is really falling, and only one injury so far.

The last two days have been a little low-key, as most people went back to work, leaving us with only a few people at the house.  Tomorrow things should pick up with another 5 people showing up.

We've managed to find a few new runs and routes.  We sought out a few of the "Smoking Huts" that are scattered around in the tree runs.  We also tried a new route down Vasquez Cirque which proved to be very cool.  Fun stuff!

Friday, February 19, 2010

Facial Hair

I've been letting the facial hair go wild since Christmas.  I'm now to the stage where I"m trying to trim it into humorous designs.  Here's where I'm at currently.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

200 Posts!

Nope, this isn't about an amazing fence I saw.  This is the 200th post of the blog.  That's a lot of posting.

Kristen and I have been looking a little more seriously at houses.  We took a look at a log house in a desirable location.  Unfortunately there was a lot wrong with the place, so our enthusiasm eventually subsided.


On Saturday we took off for Nederland for a short weekend trip.  On the way up the canyon, we stopped to eat an early Valentine's dinner at the Red Lion Inn, which specializes in wild game.  Both our meals were excellent, I had Bison, Kristen had her favorite: Steak Diane.

After checking in to our hotel, we headed out to see what was going on in Ned.  We eventually ended up at a bar that had live blues playing.  We're not sure exactly what was going on, but it seemed like some kind of costume contest was on-going.  A lot of older people showed up dressed like 1950's gangsters, which was rather surreal.  Unfortunately we didn't have the camera on us.

The next morning we headed out for some snowshoeing.  There wasn't a huge amount of snow, but we had fun stomping around the woods, getting lost a few times.  There weren't many people out, so we got to enjoy the quiet.


Then it was back to Boulder for preparations for another work week.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Steamboat

Just a few pictures from Steamboat last weekend.  We had one exciting moment where we got lost in the back country a little bit, but all's well that ends well.