Anna skiing the powder on Keystone’s North Bowl on my birthday

On Wednesday of this week I had a birthday. I decided to take the day off work and go skiing with Anna who was on spring break. We drove up in the morning with a bit of a late start but we had a fantastic day. Keystone had received 7″ of fresh snow in the previous 36 hours so it was pristine. We hiked back in the North Bowl where there was a ton of untracked powder which was so fun. Anna skied really well on it.

Celebrating with my two favorite kids and some birthday cheesecake

We finished around 4pm and then it was back to Denver for my birthday celebration. We ordered Thai food which was delicious and then Marcy made her classic cheesecake with some cherry sauce. Yum!

This weekend it was back up to the mountains. Jude’s soccer on Saturday was canceled because the ground was still too wet from the last snowstorm. He did manage to get a game in on turf on Friday night, his first game of the season which made him happy.

We met up in Keystone with an old friend of Anna’s from Waldorf and his dad. They were also good skiers so we did more powder and tree runs as well as some cruisers. It was a a full day and I was beat by the end of it. It was my third ski day in the past seven days.

Hiking on a snow covered trail was hard going

This morning I didn’t want to go skiing so Jude and I decided to try a hike on the south facing mountain behind our condo. Anna wanted more skiing so we dropped her off at 9am and told her we would meet her back at 11:30am. We wanted to leave for home by lunchtime to avoid the traffic.

Jude and I had an adventure. The first mile the snow was really packed down and it was easy hiking. But at the four wheel drive road after going about half a mile it became impossible. Each step would sink me down to my thighs so we decided to turn back. Keystone has had over 18 feet of snow so far this season and even on the south facing mountain there was still plenty of snow.

Anna’s official school photo for sixth grade

We end this week with Anna’s school photo that we received this week.