Monday.... Tuesday

Skier Days: Sara(18), Caroline(6), Susan(3), Charles(11)

Monday we woke to a Bluebird kind of day and some fresh snow.  Sara had a busy day of classes ahead.  She had skied the last 4 days and having had the chance to fore run the J1/J2 course the day before,  it was probably good that she took a day off.  I got back for my morning meeting, worked for a while, and then waited for a second meeting of the day at 11:30.  When there was noon dialed in after 15 minutes I decided to take an early lunch and get a couple of runs in.  The weather was warm and the skies were a pretty blue with just a few puffy clouds.

I laid out a plan to hit all of the lifts that are currently opened and managed to do so as well as get in six runs and be back at my desk before 1:15.   The trails that were groomed were much better than they were when they had been skied off at the end of Sunday.  The bumps were still pretty soft at the bottom of Risky Business as well.  I was going to head in early when I realized that the Aurora chairs was spinning so I took one quick run from the top of Spruce down Sirius and Aludra and the bottom of Northern Lights.  When I got to the top of the Aurora chair who did I spy but Stan and Alycia who had decided to take the day off and avoid driving home in the snow the night before.

I continued to work the rest of the day and managed to get my status report done early for once..  I picked up Sara and we did a pass through the grocery store picking up supplies for the week.  Sara seemed so mature and was a bit help.  I have been working on playing the Owl City, Fireflies song and she sang along with me. While she wrapped up her work and exchanged messages on Facebook with her pals.  

Tuesday we were up early again and she started they day off great.  She got everything together and we were packed up and to the competition center right on time.   Today was her first day on the new GS skis that are fully 170s (holy cow).   I got my Mini back up to the lot but it had snowed another couple of inches of slush snow overnight and it had not yet been plowed.  High performance tires and slushy snow covered dirt parking lots do not mix.  I ended up parking at the other end of the lot in a spot where I can easily roll out.  There was a small panic about having clothes for formal dinner night, but that turned out to be cancelled.

I had my weekly meeting with the boss and managed to crank through a bunch of my to do list.   I got out for a few runs today,  but the conditions were pretty marginal.  I got my first run down Wildfire, but that was not nearly as pleasant as I was hoping for with no real structure to the bumps and big piles of mash potato like snow.   Someone had managed to poach agony by coming in from Goatpath as can be evidenced by the picture above.

I picked up Sara at 7:30 after she had attended an after dinner talk on nutrition.   Sara had ended up having a self imposed very bad day and was pretty wiped out by the time we got everything unpacked and put away.  Fortunately, tomorrow is a new day and a fresh start.  I can hear the snow guns running again as the temperatures are finally back down below freezing tonight. Tomorrow it will be cold and white and fresh.

I just finished reading "Practicing Catholic" by James Carroll last night.  Tonight it is on to "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" :-)

- C