Showing posts with label colorado. Show all posts
Showing posts with label colorado. Show all posts

Sunday, January 21, 2007

One week down

We head into the second week 0f our hols with great times behind us. The skiing/boarding at Copper is magnificent and we've all made decent progress with our respective abilities.


Having a couple of rest days over the weekend has enabled us to enjoy a couple of other activities most notably dog mushing in Leadville yesterday.


None of us had done anything like this before and the apprehension was tangible as we waited for our guide to lead us out to the dogs and sled. Kirby was a lovely chap and did his best to ease us into the techniques and skills required to take full control of the sled. To be honest, we were really just holding on but the lack of any 'skilled' person on the sled alongside the driver was quite unnerving.



We all took it in turns to 'mush', lay in the sled and ride on the trailer on the back of the skidoo, from where all the pics could be taken. There were a couple of hairy moments but we all came back safe and sound. An amazing experience.

Friday, January 12, 2007

Bring on the snow.

As earlier advertised, Fi, Rach, Paul and I are off to Copper Mountain CO for a couple of weeks of skiing/boarding. Packing is almost done, which is a relief given the time of our flight tomorrow morning.

I'm hoping to be able to post here, and to my Flickr pages whilst in the US so hopefully more soon.