The whole trip Josh and I were hoping to ski. Joseph said he'd like to come along to so we set our coordinates on Red Lodge Ski resort. We left around 7:30 AM and ascended the mountain in the continuing snow storm from the previous day. On our way to the lodge we came across a car that had got too close to the edge and almost gone over. Joseph was able to borrow a tow rope and easily pulled the little Volkswagen out. In the meantime I rented my ski equipment and found out that the girl at the register was the daughter of one of the pharmacists we work with at the clinic.
The fresh powder on the mountain was easily above 2 feet deep, many places above our knees. Since I had never skied before, and my training was solely a series of youtube videos, the first run was difficult - especially since Josh and Joseph started me on the intermediate hills. They believe in the learn by failure technique so on the second run we went to the peak of the mountain (9,432 ft) and skied down the black diamond trails. Luckily the depth of the powder padded my falls and slowed me down somewhat. I did get better as the day wore on but the deep powder was very tiring. I fell quite a bit and got heckled by multiple people on the ski lifts above. I was amazed at the size of the mountain, the number of ski trails, how young some of the skiers were, and how easy some people made it look. Once at the peak we were above the clouds and also the snow storm. I've never quite experienced anything like that! We got home around 12:30 AM and had no trouble sleeping. We owe a big thank you to Joseph for making it a great weekend.
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| Roy was my alarm clock |
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| We're going up |
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| Bad place to get stuck... |
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| Pretty awesome headdress |
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| People do some serious skiing |
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| Notice my snowplow technique |
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| It's deep fellas |
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| Can almost see the lodge from here! |
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| Subie deserved a wash. Lookin good |
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