The snow was a little harder today, and quite grippy because of the extreme cold. Mason and Claire peeled off to ski some greens and Jamie and I headed into Sun Up Bowl. The sun didn't do a whole lot to counter the cold but at least it felt nice.
Some friends of Mason's from Christchurch were meeting up with us. Mike (Stickle), Lyn and Brett are staying in Breckenridge for a week and decided to come over to Vail for the day.
We teamed up with Stickle and Brett at the top of the Mountain Top Express. I recognised Stickle immediately as I'd bumped into him briefly in Breckenridge on Sunday.
Mason took off with Claire and Lyn to ski greens and blues on the front side, and Jamie, Brett, Stickle and I headed into China Bowl.
A few laps on the groomed and through the trees and then we lead the guys over to Blue Sky Basin to ski the runs we'd hit yesterday.
The snow was still remarkably good, although a little hard and less forgiving. A few runs in Blue Sky Basin and then back to China Bowl to hit a very nice off piste green run called Sourdough. The snow was so good we lapped it 3 or 4 times.
As the clock ticked past 1:30pm my stomach was growling, the legs were starting to feel like jelly and my back was tightening up. The harder snow does that.
We lunched at Buffaloes at the top of MTE. Jamie set about making friends with everybody in the place, while the rest of us tucked into our cheese burgers.
We probably left lunch a bit late because we were all a bit lethargic post lunch. We stopped for a team photo taken by the on mountain professionals. The nice young man took a couple of beaut photos of the boys with a wicked mountain range back drop. The photos which can be retrieved online at my Epic (ski pass) account include lo res versions which are allegedly free to email, post to face book etc. However I've been online and it keeps asking me for $40. So unfortunately I can't post one of the photos here.
Mason and Lyn joined us for a couple of cruisy runs on Avanti and then we headed down, calling it a day at 3:40pm.
We enjoyed a couple of apres ski beers with the Breck crew before they caught their shuttle back to Breckenridge. My back was still feeling a bit tight so I decided to book a massage while the kids headed into Lions Head for dinner.
The massage was great and hopefully the back will feel better tomorrow.
A bit light on the photos today. It was such a full on ski day with team Breck. But I snapped this picture of the cool bronze statue at the base of the Vail Village gondola.
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