As promised, I took some ski pictures. We went to Wolf Creek Ski Resort between South Fork
and Pagosa Springs (if you look on a map); it is reputed to have the most snow anywhere in Colorado. I think this is probably true. The day was absolutely perfect. I shed the liner in my coat after about an hour of skiing because I was hot! Jeremy and I skiied the
day with Kendra, our new MVSer and first time skiier. She went down the bunny slope (which you had to ride a lift to!) fast and furiously colliding with the safety fence at the bottom of the slope by the lift. This got us a lecture on needing ski school lessons, dangers of reckless skiing, and "have you read the Colorado responsible skiiers code?" I thought it was all quite unnecessary. If she would have happened to wipe out before making it to the bottom of the slope - as most people would have done - they (the lecturers) would have been none-the-wiser. Regardless, we took the lift back up and this time Kendra learned the to snow plow before shooting down the mountain. She was a natural and was as good as me by the end of the day. (I
don't know what that really says about her skill, except that she learned quickly.) Anyway, it was fun. We found a couple long winding paths that we felt skilled at and could go fairly fast; it is invigorating! The picture (top left) shows Kendra and Jeremy gliding down one of the easier slopes. We also tumbled down "Thumper" a blue slope with extremely deep powder. That was by far the hardest one because you sunk into the powder when you tried turning. You can see the speck of Jeremy on this slope in the
picture on the bottom right. We all wiped out numerous times, but Jeremy had the least number of falls on this slope. We did a few other blues more successfully. The last picture (bottom left) is Jeremy and I at the top of the mountain. What is over our shoulder is breathtaking, and where if you want to brave the possibilities of getting lost, avalanches, etc you can go back country skiing; we didn't brave anything! We started skiing at 10:30am, took a short (20 min) lunch break, and finished skiing around 3:30pm (it closed at 4). It was a good day, but boy, am I sore and tired ... even writing this the next morning!
and Pagosa Springs (if you look on a map); it is reputed to have the most snow anywhere in Colorado. I think this is probably true. The day was absolutely perfect. I shed the liner in my coat after about an hour of skiing because I was hot! Jeremy and I skiied the
day with Kendra, our new MVSer and first time skiier. She went down the bunny slope (which you had to ride a lift to!) fast and furiously colliding with the safety fence at the bottom of the slope by the lift. This got us a lecture on needing ski school lessons, dangers of reckless skiing, and "have you read the Colorado responsible skiiers code?" I thought it was all quite unnecessary. If she would have happened to wipe out before making it to the bottom of the slope - as most people would have done - they (the lecturers) would have been none-the-wiser. Regardless, we took the lift back up and this time Kendra learned the to snow plow before shooting down the mountain. She was a natural and was as good as me by the end of the day. (I 
don't know what that really says about her skill, except that she learned quickly.) Anyway, it was fun. We found a couple long winding paths that we felt skilled at and could go fairly fast; it is invigorating! The picture (top left) shows Kendra and Jeremy gliding down one of the easier slopes. We also tumbled down "Thumper" a blue slope with extremely deep powder. That was by far the hardest one because you sunk into the powder when you tried turning. You can see the speck of Jeremy on this slope in the 
picture on the bottom right. We all wiped out numerous times, but Jeremy had the least number of falls on this slope. We did a few other blues more successfully. The last picture (bottom left) is Jeremy and I at the top of the mountain. What is over our shoulder is breathtaking, and where if you want to brave the possibilities of getting lost, avalanches, etc you can go back country skiing; we didn't brave anything! We started skiing at 10:30am, took a short (20 min) lunch break, and finished skiing around 3:30pm (it closed at 4). It was a good day, but boy, am I sore and tired ... even writing this the next morning!
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