We had a great time skiing on Saturday. There was about few inches of powder on the cars in the morning and it seemed like there was more on the mountain. Temps were in the 28-30 range most of the day and the morning was sunny and clear, it started snowing and blowing in the afternoon but it was still fun even though the visibility was spotty at times.

Bridgit thought it was the best MI snow she had ever skied. Our group started heading in for the day around 3 but Bridgit and I kept skiing until 4 or so. Bridgit spent a bit of the day skiing with little T, so she was still rearing to go and I managed to keep up with her (good thing she was skiing for two). She figured that she wouldn’t be on the slopes much or any in CO so she had better make the most of it. I decided to start tackling moguls in the morning before I got too wore out to do them, and wow do they work your legs. I think I am starting to get the hang of them, but I had some problems controlling my speed when it was steep or icy in between the bumps. I will still need to work on them more before I take on Pallavicini. Bridgit and John keep telling me that I need to work on keeping shoulders pointing down hill and when I really work at it it feels right, but it isn’t natural yet.

Alex has come leaps and bounds since last year. He has started skiing blacks now, but it was hard to keep him away from the “freestyle” course they had set up. It was a terrain park they had set up for Boardercross. It had starting gates and a number of berm/jump things set up and he had a blast skiing it over and over and over.

That night Pat told Bridgit that Katie said “no blacks and no moguls” but it was too late. Except for when she was with Theresa (4yo) she was skiing mostly/all blacks. She only did mogul runs when she was going to be going what she called “Tom speed”, which I think means really really fast . I figure that June-Bug will have the feel of skiing down now so that will make things easier.

The next morning we woke up and it was -4 without the windchill and it was blowing in the 30mph range. Nobody thought that skiing would be fun. We had some fun white-out conditions on the drive home and we couldn’t even see Boyne Mtn. when we drove past it. We also got stuck behind an accident for an hour on I-75 and managed to get the other car warned and routed around it.

I am feeling pumped about CO and more ready now.