What a fine day for a Day Four

(The title refers to a song that was playing while I was writing the blog... Fountains of Wayne and the song, "What a Fine Day for a Parade" - I had to explain since it sounds kind of funny.)

Day four at Keystone started at 5:30 am. Pulled out of the driveway at 6:44, hit some traffic after Idaho Spiggs but it was completely clear traffiicwise and weatherwise the rest of the way to the resort. Half way up Loveland Pass, the sun started illuminating the mountains around I-70.

Taking pictures while driving over the pass made some of my passengers nervous. I can't imagine why, the roads were fine!

One of our favorite Podcasts to listen to is "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me" an NPR quiz show with a panel of guests and and a great host, Peter Sagal and Carl Castle from Morning Edition. The Podcast we listened to was 2009 in review with the highlight being Brian Williams from NBC who talked about being happy he was on vacation when the Colorado Balloon Boy thing happened. He also blogs on Music (BriTunes) and had some funny lines.

When we pulled into the lot, it was two above. A 12 minute gondola ride to the top put us on top of the mountain not ready to ski. Since it was early and cold we grabbed 2 coffees and a hot chocolate for the inflated price of $9.50. Sky took a couple of runs with us before heading over to Area 51, the terrain park where he was meeting some friends.

Meanwhile, Tamra, Sierra and I took another gondola over to the Outback where there are only blue and black runs. It's a little less crazy than the front side of Keystone. Just before lunch, I found a really steep blue that was one of the widest and steepest blues I've ever skied. It is the picture below where it drops off precipitously in the next 50 yards.

AT&T cell service seems to be pretty good at Keystone. It really helps when you want to track Sky down or give him an update. He said he was hurting in one of his texts, so we headed to lunch, ate, took a few more runs and headed home.

Day four was great for the weather, everyone skied well, Sky turned out not be hurt (his friends went up to A-Basin) and we didn't hit massive traffic on the way home. Plus, I got a nap in and I'm home writing this blog watching the sun set over the Rockies just before we head over to our friend's house to pick up our new puppy, "Tank".