WINTER PARK RESORT, COLORADO, UNITED STATES of AMERICA

November 20, 2015

O    Ou  Our trip goes downhill

 FIRST FRESH TRACKS!!!

 Good, thank GOODness, that most of Colorado has been getting snow.

The last few days have seen some blizzards packing 100MPH

winds cross the state.

 No complaints to catch the tail end of this one.

 Sorry. Put the slide in backwards.

With a average of 29ft of snow a year, off to a good start.

Training the trainers.

Want to volunteer for adaptive skiing?

Ontario Track3

 Even though the resort was far from being fully open,

a great start.

 It being just the third day of the season, the whole place seemed to be in a training mode.
Practice smile.

 Parts of the resort were showing it's 76 years.

I like that.

Wonder where we put the ...............

Coming next: 

GETTING HIGH

DEVIL'S THUMB RANCH, COLORADO, USA

I'm pretty much out of breath most times I XC ski so our first day @ 9,000 ft+ we headed out of Winter Park for a little breathless scenery.

 The wild blue Frontier.

Editor's pick.

 These are for Carol and John

 Kind of ranch I wouldn't have a problem if someone rustled up some grub and a sleeping blanket for us.

COMING NEXT: "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" 

COLBY, KANSAS, USA

OFF TO THE GREAT WHITE FRONTIER

Our push to Colorado was somewhat short-lived as the weather, blizzard, we drove into closed the thruway.

We safely crawled the last 20 miles of the day and held up for the night in western Kansas.

 By morning some places in the area had upwards of 20".

 After some digging....

 ....we're on to hopefully more snow and MOUNTAINS.

Wanting to add to my list of places I've skied but couldn't find a hill for a couple of hundred miles.

It wasn't long before we had dry road to and thru Denver. 

 Our first winter destination is apply named

Winter Park, Colorado.

Here we have passed thru Denver and are crossing the 
Berthoud Pass @ 11,400' above Toronto level.

Winter Park indeed.