Saturday, February 9, 2008

Saturday Ski Trip

Audra and I had put together a wonderful plan to take a day off on Friday, drive up to Beaver Creek and ski with one of my company friends. But as fate would have it, all the highways were closed down due to heavy snow and winds.

So, on Saturday, we took the kids up to Keystone for an awesome day of skiing and riding. Honestly, by looking at the pics below, you wouldn't know we had weather worth a darn to make some runs down a slope.....but, after coming over Hoosier Pass, the wind quit and the day was awesome!!!!!

The pics below are of our trip to Keystone. If you looked up at the sky, it was a beautiful day, but looking back at the road.....we were driving through a massive, ground blizzard. Many times, it was a total white-out, but we kept the T4R on the road.

These are near, white-out conditions. (You really have to click on this pic to get the full effect.)



Sometimes it got pretty exciting as the snow drifts across the road, occasionally 12" deep, gave our Toyota a chance to prove how awesome it is.



Blowing snow at 11,000 feet elevation....the road that is. That peak in the background is a 14'er.