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!

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.

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.

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.

Work and Snowboarding, House Hunting

I randomly heard Bonnie Raitt singing "Angel From Montgomery" in the grocery store the other night.  That brought back some memories.


Two weekends ago, Kristen and I managed to make it down to the National Western Stock Show.  Bruce and Teri had 10 mules there, entered in a myriad of contests.  We watched them place 2nd in the Costume contest.

I went snowboarding the next day with five other guys.  The snow wasn't great, but we managed to find some good stuff.  The new helmet cam is working out great.  Here's a corny video I put together from that day.




Last week was pretty hectic at week.  We still have no shortage of work, and we're looking for bigger offices and more employees.  A few late nights here and there, but it's livable.  I managed to sneak away on Thursday for another day of snowboarding.  The snow was better, but it's still well below normal.

This Saturday was another day of snowboarding, this time at Copper Mountain.  The snow there was pretty poor, but we still enjoyed ourselves.

Kristen and I looked at a few houses on Sunday.  One was pretty beat up, was in a great location, but they were asking too much for it.  The other was pretty far up in the mountains, had bad access, but was pretty cool otherwise.  The search continues.  We did get pre-approved for a loan, so we can check that off the list.

We've been cleaning and packing up stuff around the condo.  The upstairs neighbors continue to have square dance parties from 2 am through 4 am, so that's a little extra motivation.  I'm almost done touching up all the cabinets, a few more nights of that and I'll be done.

This is going to be a short week, I leave on Thursday for a four day weekend at Steamboat.  They too desperately need snow, I'm hoping a big storm randomly swings in Wednesday night.

Not much to report...

It's been pretty slow around here for the last few weekends.  Two weekends ago we spent some time at Kristen's mom's place.  Joni cooked a huge amount of food.  I weighed myself before and after eating, I gained four pounds while I was there.  I was pretty full.

We also started reorganizing the condo, with the hopes of putting it on the market.  We have a lot of work to get through, so it'll be a slow process.  One of the bigger projects is to sand and re-stain all the window ledges.  A combination of cat scratches and water have forced that project to happen.

It's been warmer around here, not much snow in the mountains, so no snowboarding to report.  I did spend a bunch of time updating the tree house blog, so check that out if you haven't already.

This last weekend wasn't much more active.  More house work, a few trips to the Home Depot.  Kristen and I did end up at the new happening burger joint in town, Larkburger.  Good stuff.  Really good.  If the brother-in-law ever shows his face in these parts, we'll have to drop by.  I'd be curious about his professional burger opinion.

Pictures from the Christmas Trip

Here are some of the more memorable pictures from the Indiana trip.


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