This picture of Blake cracks me up!
Jen and I are CRAZY!
Blake and I by the main fire place in the Hotel. Also, very romantic. When I wasn't boarding I was reading or cross-stitching.
Ha... I love this picture... Derek reminds me of Derek Zoolander
The crew eating at Chet's Bar and Grill. We were there for the end of the crazy Austrian brother's performance. Good times!
Jen was so kind to make me a surprise chocolate crock pot cake for my birthday! How sweet is that?!
This is Blake and I at the restaurant. This was the cheapest place we could find to eat. We made sandwiches for all the lunches and we made dinners for the first two nights. It was scrum-didly-umscious.
We all got to ski for three days while relaxing at night, playing games, and watching movies (courtesy of Events Services).
The snow was pretty good with powder stashes to find.
Of course we had to hot tub it up as much as we could. Being out on the slopes, we got sore and tired.
This is Blake and I on top of Lone Peak Triple Lift. I am so glad I have been taking snowboarding lessons so that I can stay up with Blake. Blake got a new get up for tele-ing and the skis worked out great.
We also took a ride up in the Lobe Peak Tram but we didn't have our camera with us. We only looked around at the top. There is no way I could ski the top of Lone Peak (its super rocky, double blacks). Blake, Derek, and Jordan can ski down it but I still value my life.
Thursday morning Blake, Derek, and I were out on the slopes. We decided to go farther east to some other lifts. We were going to meet at the bottom of Challenger from the run we were currently at. Derrek got ahead of us and was not in our eye sight. Blake and I got to the bottom of Challenger and waited 20 minutes for Derek because we thought he might have made a wrong turn. We talked to the ski lifty and he told us were our friend might have gone. Blake and I took off toward Moonlight Basin (a joint ski resort with Big Sky) to see if Derek went down there. The trail down to the Pony Express lift (in Moonlight Basin) was a pretty flat cat-trail so I had to skate my way down (definitely a negative for snowboarding). When we got there, Derek was not there and we realize that the lift is not open. A guy walks out from a building right by the lift and asks us if we were meant to come down this way. Well, to make a long story short, they got a shuttle to come pick us up to take us back to Big Sky. Blake and I thought we coud hike it but it is a 4 mile hike back to the base area... we were on the other side of the mountain.
We got to Big Sky probabely 45 minutes later and still no call from Derek. Blake had his phone but Derek didn't. Blake and I hit the trails hoping we would run into Derek. But as big as the resort is we knew we had little chance of running into him. Come to find out later that Derek had gone back to the Base Area but went back to where he thought we were at. It was pretty funny.
Yes it is time of year for the eventful Ski/Snowboard trip with willing friends and family! We once again went to Big Sky, Montana from December 16-19. All in attendance: Derek and his girlfriend Jen, Jordan, Blake, and I.
Now let me remind you that Big Sky is the largest resort in America. It is huge and there are more than 19 different lifts with more than 3,812 acres! It is a skiers dream come true!
This is the view from our window!
Blake is so HOT!
It is so beautiful here! As we were driving to Big Sky, temperatures reached negative 19 degrees in Island Park. It was a pretty cold week but Blake has prepared me for the cold weather. There are lots of pictures so be prepared.
