MLK Weekend Skiing with the boys: Monday

Sunday night before I crashed on the couch (after skiing all day with the boys) I agreed to ski again with Alan McQueen and his daugher Emerson. 





He was going up to WP and was looking for another bunch to go with. It seemed like a great fit since all the kids could ride in back and the two adults up front. We agreed to meet at the SE parking lot at Morrison. 


We got there a little late, but Alan was a little later because he'd forgotten his ski harness backpack. I played hacky sack in the parking lot and cracked up the boys by occasionally throwing it at their windows. 


Alan arrived and we loaded up and headed off in his rig. It was a pretty fast drive, with fast moving traffic. Near the turn off to Empire it bottle necked, but not for long. We were over Berthoud pass quickly. We went to the Galloping Goose   area of Mary Jane, rented skis for Luka, got the 5 and under passes and decided to drive to the same place Aidan and Luka and I had parked at the day before. 


We rigged up, got on the bus and were at the slopes quickly. I talked Alan into going up the Zephyr first run, because of it's great green cat track. The ski harness he and Emerson were using added some complications though and Luka got tired of waiting. After waiting a bit, he urged us to move on, and we did. 


Luka had dramatically improved since the first runs the day before and we were able to make run after run on the Zephyr lift. Aidan made a plan that was to ski down to the Prospector lift and ride up and ski those runs. We managed to stay together until Aidan took the family terrain zone. It turns out that went past where we wanted to go to cut off to "Mock Turtle". That run would take us to Olympia Express where we could get up to High Lonesome. 


Since Aidan overshot the turn off to Mock Turtle, Luka and I continued on, expecting that Aidan would find his way back up to meet us. We Made it to the top of Olympia Express and decided to go look for Aidan at the bottom of Zephyr lift. On the way down we got a call from Aidan who had met a family who made the call for him. We met at the bottom of Zephyr lift. 


We then all took the Zephyr lift up and made two more runs before calling it an awesome day. 


At the bottom we called Alan and Emerson and coordinated our rendevous for apres ski hot chocolate and beers.