The skiing was good in Breckenridge today. After leaving the condo this morning we went to the bus station next door and waited for a bus to take us to the nearest ski lift. It took a few minutes for the bus to arrive, but that gave me time to get all of the various pieces of clothing that I was wearing properly adjusted. The bus arrived and took us to Snowflake Lift. We hopped on the lift, rode it to the top, and slid down the side of the hill to Lift 5. We then proceeded to spend the morning going up Lift 5 and down the various green runs that are near it. I used my GPS over the course of the day and we ended up traveling 42.52 miles (including the lifts and the ski runs themselves).

We came back to the condo for lunch and I had my typical travel meal: peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I don’t typically eat PB&J any other time, but I enjoy it when I’m traveling for some reason. Go figure. Along with the sandwiches I had some chips, an apple, half an orange.. I ate well.

For the afternoon we got slightly more adventurous. We rode the bus to the bottom of Peak 9 and took the Quiksilver lift up to slide down a few more green runs. Then, we went over to the Peak 8 Superconnect chair and went to (somewhere near) the top of Peak 8. The nice thing about this lift is that it only services blue runs. So, we got the opportunity to go down a small amount of blue. We went down Springmeier and connected with the 4-o’clock run. We took that all the way back to Quiksilver, and did the loop again. The top of Quiksilver to the Peak 8 Superconnect and from the top of that down the 4-o’clock run. We then went back to the top of Peak 8 and took Crescendo down. By this point in the afternoon, the slopes were getting a little bit icy. I didn’t have a problem on Crescendo, but it could have been better. By this time it was after 3pm (the lifts close at 4) so we went to the bottom of Peak 9 and just road lift 5 a couple of times. We got on lift 5 for the final time at about 3:54pm. So, it was after 4pm when we got to the top and we were able to ski down after 4pm all the way to the end of the 4 o’clock run.

Got back to the condo, took a steam shower (wonderful thing, those steam showers) and poked around for a bit while we were getting ready to think about dinner. We ended up going to Michael’s Italiano for dinner. I got the Grilled Chicken pizza. It was a small, but ended up being about a foot across and was plenty more than I was in the mood to eat. It was really good. It had the chicken, pesto, sweet onions, tomatoes, and goat cheese on it. Brian and Bill both got the baked ziti.

After that we hit a couple of stores and made our first visit to Crepes ala Cart. This place is indescribable. You’ve just got to see it. We had a dessert crepe. I went simple. Just a chocolate crepe. I wanted dark chocolate, but they didn’t have any dark chocolate, so I had to settle for semi-sweet. Supposedly they order their dark chocolate over the internet from somewhere in Europe, and they had run out. So, I didn’t get the dark chocolate. It was tasty, though.

Skiing today was good. I felt great all day long. No muscle problems worth talking about, and I feel great now. I think my running is really paying off. I knew I did that for a reason. I’m really looking forward to the rest of the week. If we can get some fresh powder I can totally see myself on blue-blacks by the end of the week. If things stay icy…. probably not. Stay tuned!

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