Ski Adventures

WOW! It's been a long time since I've updated this blog. I've been pretty busy lately with the campaign work I'm doing, planning events and writing posts for the PVRC blog (there's a link to the right if you wanna check it out!). But I also thought I'd spare you all from yet another blog post about the 23048720 inches of snow we had this month.

And while shoveling snow is no fun, Paul and I recently discovered that 50 inches of snow can be fun if you've got some skis and a mountain! For the past 2 weekends we've been skiing and having so much fun learning how. The weekend right after the big storms, my parents invited us to go skiing with them and my brother Justin at Liberty Mountain because the conditions were perfect, just like waaaay back when we lived in Vail, CO. So we went. Paul had never been before and it'd been years since I'd hit the slopes, so we went to ski school in the morning, learned the basics and were cruising down blue slopes by early afternoon. We also did some night tubing which was really fun!

So, needless to say, by the end of the day we were hooked. We've even been thinking about buying our own stuff so we don't have to keep renting. And we're working on setting up a ski trip out west next winter (hopefully to Vail).

Since we just couldn't shake the itch, we went again on Sunday. This time we went to Roundtop Mountain, and while the conditions weren't as ideal because of all the 40+ degree weather we've been having, we still had a great time. AND we were able to meet up with some friends of ours, Tyler and Laura, who are excellent skiers (Tyler and Paul played lacrosse together at Messiah). The blue runs were a bit harder at Roundtop so Paul and I came home with a few more bruises than our first trip. But that's all part of learning.

I mean, we're no Lindsay Vonn and Bode Miller... but hey, we're not too bad either. And now that we've learned a little and tried out this new sport, it's given us a MUCH better appreciation for all the Olympic athletes and their skill. I just can't believe the incredible speeds they get up to going down those super steep slopes!

So for now, it'll be biking all spring, summer and fall and skiing in the winter. I'm hoping that all this outdoor exercise will leave me with some fabulous looking legs!