Step one, grew the beard.
Step two, got some friends together.
Step three, concoct a plan.
Step four, execute said plan.
Who said skiing is hard? I suppose that all depends on the landing, but we'll get to that part. With a single vacation day left before the end of the year, it wasn't too difficult to figure out a good use for it, especially after working a month on my awesome skiing beard! It also helped that Caberfae was running $9 lift tickets and since we would be in the area, our friend Cori had a seasons pass to Crystal Mountain, so the decision was made to have back to back ski days.
We started at Caberfae on Friday. Becca and I are the more traditional skiers. Cori is part of the new generation that thinks snowboarding is cool (it's not). With six pairs of skis loaded in the blazer, I thought it was a bit of overkill, but Becca talked me into trying some newer technology skis. Call me old school, but I like my pair of skis I had in high school best. The new skis didn't turn that much better and because they are shorter actually felt scary at speed (or maybe I'm just getting older). It was a great day for skiing, the snow could have been better, mainly man made snow on top, but the temps were great. Once we broke out the camera, it was easy to take pictures without gloves, and still feel fingers.
It was hard to say the highlight of the day, it was funny when after lunch we came out to get back to it, only to find that Cori's lock wouldn't open. We thought we would need maintenance to come and cut it open, the Becca used her super man strength to force it open. The other highlight was getting to ski with my old high school skiing buddy, Steve. He was able to join us in the evening and get a few runs in. Fifteen plus years later, the two of us still rule the Caberfae slopes.
Saturday we were back at it, though this time we went to Crystal Mountain. After a full day of skiing on the day before, all of us were moving slower on Saturday. We still got many hours of skiing in. All said, in two days, we got 40 miles of skiing in (with chair lifts) which I think entitles us to some sore muscles and maybe a pair of sore backs (back to back). Speaking of sore backs, here's why Cori's back is sore, oh yeah, don't land like this:
