6pm The Whitemans
We headed over to the party at the Whiteman's after skiing yesterday Scott gave us a tour of the sheephearders shed in the back yard.
Paul Carter
Scott and Bella and Greta
Our gracious hosts, Scott and Colleen
The party crew
Kayla and Dylan came with. I have to hand it to them, it's more than I probably would have done at that age. Kayla got a cool commemorative snow globe, some vouchers, some jewelery, and the chance to pet the dogs.
Downtown looks very festive this time of year.
It was snowing pretty hard on the way home so we had high hopes for tomorrow. Forecast was for 4" to 8".
December 21, 2015
8:15am
Gondola line, Steamboat
We were on the gondola at 8:35 and ready to rip. The forecast said it snowed 6" as of 5am. We hoped it might have dumped a bit more in the past few hours. We made the call to stay on the lower mountain and lap on Thunderhead. We figured that everyone else went up top.
Dylan rips Ted's Ridge. It felt more like a foot.
We hit Concentration on lap 2. Visibility was pretty bad and made things kind of interesting. The upside is that nobody was there.
We went over to Vertigo on run 3. We were kind of amazed when there were only two lines down. Dylan found a little drop off.
That was so fun we did it again. There were four tracks the second time--the two we saw the first run and the two we made. And so it went for about eight laps. We were the only ones onto the secret which was pretty sweet. The rest of the mountain was getting ravaged we had Vertigo to ourselves.
I talked Dylan into a few shots.
We finally met up with Paul and his crew around 11:00 or so. Looks like they were having fun too.
Dylan hops a rock.
We finally headed in at 1:30. The Thunderhead does happy hour from 1-3. Storm Peak was still living up to its name.
The view from Thunderhead.
We were pretty cashed after five hours of hitting it, so we headed down after lunch. Dylan was down for the count.
We chilled for a while and then Kayla took us on the Moots tour. Kayla started there last summer and is enjoying the job. Moots is a high-end bicycle manufacturer. The shop is pretty cool--what you would expect from a metal shop. Kind of reminded me of working in the shop at Woodward Governor when I was 15. Every good shop needs a shop dog. Frieda the shop dog.
We went to the gas station and did a bit of holiday shopping before dinner.
This round at Steamboat is over. Dylan and I will head for Winter Park first thing in the morning and ski with Cousin Craig Jones and his son Cole and Tom Crewdson. With any luck we'll see Dan Hedrick and Pete Striffler will show up.
It's been a good visit. Steamboat is always fun and it's great to see Kayla.
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