FINALLY hitting the slopes!

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2015

Today, we decided we wanted to go skiing, however there were some things we needed to take care of. Namely, laundry, and dumping and filling fresh water tanks. We decided to take care of these items and go skiing for the 1/2 day in the afternoon.

Tony took me and the laundry up to the office, and I got 3 loads (using the 3 washers) going (34 min cycle). He went back to the rig and worked to get the tanks dumped, fresh water filled, and then moved the old fireplace to the basement for now. We decided to do laundry at the park rather than run our machine, because temps were still below freezing -- thus, no hookup to water. Plus, I didn't want to run the risk of overflowing the tank... normally, we leave the grey tank valve open to run the washing machine, having it run down the sewer hose right away. Since arriving, we've only hooked the sewer up to dump, not leaving it hooked up continuously. The other benefit was 3 loads done in about 1.75 hours, -- it would have taken much longer for us to do them in-house. These machines were very nice, but very expensive. $2.50 each cycle, paid by credit card only.

After the loads were moved to the dryer with a 50 minute cycle, we went back to the rig and worked to get our ski stuff ready. We then went back to get the clothes, loaded the truck with our ski stuff, ate lunch and hit the slopes!

We drove over to the ski resort, which is only about 4.5 miles away. Parking was not too bad, they have designated lots to park in, and a shuttle that takes you right to the base of the lifts and ticket window.

Us at the base of the Angel Fire Ski Resort

We didn't ski a whole lot as it was our first time to ski in 2 years. (We didn't go last year AT ALL!) But we did ski 4.7 miles! The weather was cloudy and windy, and snowing at the summit, but it was good to be on the slopes again. We did not get to prepare as we would have liked physically for this trip, but we found it's like riding a bike. You don't forget how, but your muscles complain a lot more when you haven't done it in a long time!!!

In the valley behind us, we could barely see the RV Resort. The pic is just a bit too blurry.

We had a good time skiing, then decided to quit before we hurt ourselves. You never want to overdo it on the first day.

Mammoth in the foreground, Angel Fire ski slopes in the background (summit in the snow/clouds)

After we returned, we ate dinner and relaxed. I went to bed early, I was wiped out. We'll see what tomorrow brings!