Tuesday Jan 14


The morning sun quickly warmed the temps up into the upper tens from the low lows by 9am. It was a blue-bird morning, not a cloud in the sky. We headed to Copper Mtn for our first day of skiing. The parking lot wasn’t crowded and the trails were mostly empty. For the most part, it was a good start. However, around 10:30am, the wind picked up and started to blow around 40 MPH. On occasion there were white out conditions. On our second run down, a gust hit me and I fell with Glenna falling right next to me. It was a lot of fun trying to get up and put our skis back on. This really tired us out. We continued to ski for another hour and called it quits for the day. We had lunch up at the top at the Koko restaurant. After lunch, on our way down, we noticed one of the lifts had stopped running because of the wind. I hope there wasn’t any body on the lift when it shut down. But after about 30 minutes it started up again. We returned back to the condo and decided to stay in tonight. Hopefully it will not be as windy tomorrow.




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