Jan Ski PET
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 8:44 pm
As in year's past the wife and I spend a decent amount of time in the winter skiing. It is something we both enjoy and we also like the cold weather. However, this year we have been very cold in SA and have now had three ice storms. Sad that we have "weathered" them better than ATL who gets much more of this weather than we do.
Our first trip was over New Year's to Taos NM and Wolf Creek, CO. We flew into Santa Fe, NM and had to change planes at DFW. American Eagle must have more orange cones than any other airline. At least 14 are visible in this photo.
Mrs Seater getting ready to attack the bumps. Taos is steep and the bumps are everywhere.
Late lunch at the Bavarian. Beer and homemade pretzels are a decent ski lunch.
View from top of Wolf Creek down to highway in the valley.
The next trip was to Crested Butte, CO. Mrs Seater had a speaking engagement at Western State in Gunnison Colorado. Since Crested Butte was just 30 minutes away I tagged along. Again we had to connect in DFW but were able to fly right to Gunnison. Afternoon traffic at DFW.
Titos and a Jack and Coke in "real" glasses.
Mrs Seater next to a huge snowman guarding a Crested Butte restaurant.
It snowed damn near non-stop for the four days we skied Crested Butte.
Mrs Seater ready to attack the mountain.
Overnight snow on the rental.
Our most recent trip was to Beaver Creek also in Colorado. We left SA last Friday as the city was pretty much shut down for the day due to the ice. We let Samir drive us to the airport in his cab instead of driving ourselves. View of the sky as temps held steady in the 20s.
Mrs Seater at the top of Beaver Creek with Larkspur Bowl over her left shoulder.
Saturday night we drove over to Breckenridge to meet friends who were there for dinner. We knew them when we lived in Philly and don't get to see them often so what is an hour drive? Prior to dinner we walked around the international snow carving competition. Some were better than others, some sucked. The teams worked on these for 5 days.
This one looked like our dalmation, Molly.
We were supposed to fly home Tuesday, but since the ice had returned and moved to Houston where most flights were canceled we moved our flight to Wed and got to ski in about 6 inches of powder Tuesday morning. Mrs Seater ready to make tracks in Rose Bowl.
Mrs Seater in Larkspur Bowl later in the day.
The Seaters enjoying the day.
The hotel had music outside in the afternoon on the patio. One day they also had this crappy bubbly wine. I didn't have the camera the day they were handing out free glasses, plus it was dudes not ladies handing them out. Weird.
View from the hotel patio looking up at Bachelors Gulch.
I also took a photo of the house that President Ford owned. He was one of the original investors in Beaver Creek and his name is on a ton of things around the area. If I find it I will post it later.
I will also upload two of the videos I took to youtube so you donkeys can see them.
Our first trip was over New Year's to Taos NM and Wolf Creek, CO. We flew into Santa Fe, NM and had to change planes at DFW. American Eagle must have more orange cones than any other airline. At least 14 are visible in this photo.
Mrs Seater getting ready to attack the bumps. Taos is steep and the bumps are everywhere.
Late lunch at the Bavarian. Beer and homemade pretzels are a decent ski lunch.
View from top of Wolf Creek down to highway in the valley.
The next trip was to Crested Butte, CO. Mrs Seater had a speaking engagement at Western State in Gunnison Colorado. Since Crested Butte was just 30 minutes away I tagged along. Again we had to connect in DFW but were able to fly right to Gunnison. Afternoon traffic at DFW.
Titos and a Jack and Coke in "real" glasses.
Mrs Seater next to a huge snowman guarding a Crested Butte restaurant.
It snowed damn near non-stop for the four days we skied Crested Butte.
Mrs Seater ready to attack the mountain.
Overnight snow on the rental.
Our most recent trip was to Beaver Creek also in Colorado. We left SA last Friday as the city was pretty much shut down for the day due to the ice. We let Samir drive us to the airport in his cab instead of driving ourselves. View of the sky as temps held steady in the 20s.
Mrs Seater at the top of Beaver Creek with Larkspur Bowl over her left shoulder.
Saturday night we drove over to Breckenridge to meet friends who were there for dinner. We knew them when we lived in Philly and don't get to see them often so what is an hour drive? Prior to dinner we walked around the international snow carving competition. Some were better than others, some sucked. The teams worked on these for 5 days.
This one looked like our dalmation, Molly.
We were supposed to fly home Tuesday, but since the ice had returned and moved to Houston where most flights were canceled we moved our flight to Wed and got to ski in about 6 inches of powder Tuesday morning. Mrs Seater ready to make tracks in Rose Bowl.
Mrs Seater in Larkspur Bowl later in the day.
The Seaters enjoying the day.
The hotel had music outside in the afternoon on the patio. One day they also had this crappy bubbly wine. I didn't have the camera the day they were handing out free glasses, plus it was dudes not ladies handing them out. Weird.
View from the hotel patio looking up at Bachelors Gulch.
I also took a photo of the house that President Ford owned. He was one of the original investors in Beaver Creek and his name is on a ton of things around the area. If I find it I will post it later.
I will also upload two of the videos I took to youtube so you donkeys can see them.
