Winter Park.....Part II

The pic above brings back so many memories, I'm not even sure where to start. Well...Bethany and I are hanging out by a tree (after I spent a few minutes trying to get my skis back on). We decided it would be a good idea to take one more trip down the mountain before we went off to lunch. We are about halfway down the mountain and approach an "intersection" where some young skiers/snowboarders decided to take a little break. The only problem is that the area they left available for others to cross is very small.........let me emphasize the word SMALL. I was already worried that somebody was going to be heading down the slop when I cross and we were going to have a collision (I saw one the day before in that area and it totally freaked me out). I finally get past the crowd and hit something and lose one of my skis. I spend the next few minutes trying to get my ski back on (steep grade, windy conditions, a little icy....and did I mention that I was totally exhausted??!?!). Once I have my skis fastened, we head down the slopes. For some reason, I take a wrong turn and start down a tough area of the mountain. I totally wipe out and as I am putting my skis back on I begin to think that being somewhere sunny and warm would probably be awesome right about now. Bethany shows up and is laughing about my little "stunt" and notifies me that I am heading down the wrong slope. We make our way over to the trees and take a look at the map (pictured above). We finally make it down the mountain and we are totally exhausted......but take a small lunch break and head back out to close the slopes down!


This is one of my favorite pics of the trip. We just finished eating at Hernando's (great pizza in case you are wondering) and I forgot to bring along something to keep my ears covered while we waited for the bus to arrive. We waited for the bus for about 15 or 20 minutes (luckily another bus picked us up and took us to the main bus drop off (so we could hang out by the fire (pic below) while we waited for the bus to take us back)......it was a memorable learning experience.


Below are a few pics we took in Winter Park...