First Day on the Slopes

Today I finally got on the slopes. It was a great day. The sun was out, the temperature hovered around 20, and there was no one on the slopes. It took me about an hour to get out on the slopes. Mostly because it was so painful to put my foot in my boot. If you ever have a sprained foot and try to put it in a ski boot, just shove it in quickly. Putting your foot in slowly just prolongs the pain. Once I finally got my boot on, the foot didn't hurt.

I decided to ski Breckenridge, since it is only a 10 minute walk, or a 30 second bus ride. When I got to the top, it was amazing. You can see forever. I took a couple pictures, but they don't really do justice to the view.




The first run was both frustrating and fun. It was great to get out on the snow, but it was tough to not be able to ski like I am used to. Since the conditions were perfect, I had to start of with a black diamond run. The first couple turns, I was very optimistic. Three turns in, when I hit a small patch of pushed up snow, my ankle screamed like I was just hit with a baseball bat in the foot. I quickly found out that I had to stick to runs that were groomed today.

I only stayed out for a little more than 2 hours today, but skied about 10,000 feet. If my ankle/foot does heal quickly, I am going to try to ski 1 million feet and 50 days. That would be an average of 20,000 feet. I think it is going to be tough, but on the right hand side of this, I am going to keep track of my status by resort.

Before I skied down to my condo(yes, I can ski right to my condo), I took this picture of the Lake Chutes. They are filling in nicely. Hopefully, my ankle will be close enough to 100% by the time these open. They look like a lot of fun.

Josh/Rob- Are you guys ready to ski this?