Over the winter months Jen has picked up a new sport: Swimming. It started with Jen joining this swank gym located close to her office, and seeing that they had a pool there, Jen started to go to the swim classes. She always come home excited about swim practice. This week I finally went with her to check out the gym, and snapped some photos of her in the water. She clearly is having a lot of fun learning to swim with proper form. Way to go after it sweetie!
Jen and I took Strelka for a hike up Bear Canyon the other day. I brought my camera, just in case we would come across something interesting. It was overcast and the light was not the best; that is, except for one moment right as we passed this one cool weather tree.
As demonstrated by the lack of posts to my website, we have gone into full ON ski mode since November. Well, there’s the skiing, and then there were the holidays, and new years eve, and my general laziness when it comes to writing posts. But still, skiing has been taken up most available free time since our last bike ride on the Colorado Trail. We have been having the greatest early season skiing since we moved to Colorado. The resorts have been opening new terrain quicker than ever before, and I think most resorts had everything opened (including back bowls) well before Christmas.
There have already been several powder days, and yesterday was yet another magnificent powder day. We left Boulder with snow coming down on us, and it was still snowing when we returned to Boulder. It was dumping on us all day long, with one exception: The very first chair ride up put us ABOVE the snow clouds in a beautiful windless sunny snow paradise. We snapped a couple of pictures here and skied down into the snow clouds again. Never to see the sun again that day. It was a bit surreal, but a great experience, nevertheless. Damn, I love skiing!
The rest of the photos are here.