Ski Season 2007-8!

Ski season is finally here again. We came up from Boulder (or "Longmont" if you want to be picky) to find marginal snow coverage, many changes on the mountain, and an unbelievable amount of construction going on all over town.

I headed down to the Recreation center which is undergoing a big renovation itself. I swam while Joani prepared our winter's worth of homecooked food. You can see the new water slide under construction behind me.

Our friend Bill Ward ("Carol's other half) was in town to autograph copies of his recently published book about Cowboy artist "Bill Gollings". Check our copy out when you next visit us.

The snow finally started falling for real, so we hit the slopes for the first time on Saturday. We got in a few hours each day for the next few, and found conditions quite good. The video below is from a run we took on Sunday, down Buddy's run.



The Gondola has a new main cable (3.4 miles of a single steel wire!). The three lifts at the bottom of the mountain have been replaced with two, including a six-person, high speed lift. This makes for much more room at the base, in addition to the regrading which has eliminated many difficult (for beginners) pitches on the lower mountain.

There is also a lot of new construction right at the base of the Gondola. In this picture you can see two vertical cranes that are being used for the new buildings that will be in the former parking lot just below the Gondy building. As Bob Dylan said, "the things they are a'changin'".