I am still wishing I were in the mountains today. I am going to have to cover my cubie walls with pictures so I can imagine I am still there. Today's post is going to be picture heavy because the pictures from this trip really say it all.
We arrived Saturday around noon. Our friends pulled in town in the early AM since they flew Friday night. It was a rather uneventful trip aside from a near nose-dive (seriously) that our plane from Chicago to Steamboat took. About 30 minutes into the flight we hit some turbulence and the plan jerked down and to the right, resulting in a few screams. Needless to say the flight attendants sold several alcoholic beverages after that. Once we got there it was time to head to the mountain! We grabbed lunch and then went to rent our equipment. One of the guys who was with us worked there several years ago and knew several people who were still there which worked out to our advantage. We got checked in and decided we might as well go ahead and hit the slopes for some night skiing.
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| Our resort with the ski mountain in the background. |
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| The area lit up for night skiing was just one teeny tiny part of the mountain, but it was perfect for us to get our boards under us. |
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| Some of us girlies on the lift heading up! |
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| This is what happens when you try to take a picture of 4 guys on a downhill slope.... |
We decided to sleep in on Sunday and opted to head downtown to see the town and snowmobile in the afternoon...something we had on our must-do list while we were there.
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| We had lunch at the Old Town Pub and took my new favorite picture of us. |
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| Apparently shuffle board is not just a game people play on cruise ships, there are table versions for bars, too! |
After lunch we headed off to do our snowmobiling. Can I tell you how much fun this was?! I am not much a go cart fan, which is what I was expecting this to be, but it completely exceeded my expectations. We did some trail riding as well as some meadow riding which was basically driving around a meadow race car style.
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| On our Snowmobile |
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| The meadow where we did our meadow AKA Nascar riding. |
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| Our guide took us to a photo op spot along the trail which was along the continental divide. It was beautiful up there! Nothing but snowy mountains as far as you could see! |
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| This panorama of where we were does not even come close to doing it justice! |
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| More of the mountains on the continental divide. |
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| When we got back that night we got to see the most beautiful sunset right outside our window. |
Our last 2 days were spent on the mountain skiing and taking in the spectacular views, along with an amazing dinner on Monday night that will get it's own post because it was THAT amazing.
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| It's not every day a hot air balloon lands on the street outside your condo! |
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| Heading up the mountain on the gondola! |
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| The most spectacular views of the mountains around Yampa Valley came from the gondola ride up, even with the glare from the windows! |
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| One of my views from the trail.....I went down that edge after I took this picture! #itsnotassteepasitlooks #bluetrailsarethebest |
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| This was at the end of one our runs, we started at that clear spot at the top! |
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| via The purple lines are the runs we did--many of them several times, but as you can see we left lots of trails un-skied (which is why we have to go back!). I am definitely a fan of the blue intermediate runs, the greens are narrow trails which are super hard to navigate on a snowboard. We gladly traded easy trails for steeper, but wider runs. |
Like I said I am so ready to go back. It was an amazing week with some really amazing people and I cannot wait until next year!
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