Annual Ski Trip 2010
Telluride Colorado
Feb 18th through 21st

This year we had seven attendees: Tommy Trest, Nick Trest (son), Jessie Patterson, Holger Piprek, Myk Thornton, Pablo Riesco and myself.  We started off with four people and booked a nice Townhouse right next to Coonskin Lift (#7).   As we got close to the trip, Nick and Jessie, planned on driving there and Pablo booked a flight.  Pablo is a contractor working with Holger who is from Argentina, South America who had only snow boarded once in his country joined us for the first time.  Because of the limited space we managed sleeping arrangements with sleeping bags and a swing out couch and chair.  Myk, who lives in Grand Junction (CO), picked us up from Montrose Airport.

Upon our landing we became nervous about our prospects of skiing because there had not been any snow for a few weeks and we did could see roots, rocks and dirt on the ski run next to our Townhouse.  Fortunately the weather report predicted heavy snow fall for the next few days, which began the evening of our arrival.  Unfortunately, the first of the two days of snow was nearly a blizzard at times with very limited visibility on top of some of the ski runs.  When riding the gondolas, it was very cold.  On the second day of skiing, mid morning, the snow finally stopped falling to open very beautiful views of the mountains and the twin cities of Telluride.

On the last day before catching our flight back home, we stopped off in the town of Ouray to walk the town and see the Ice Climbing at Ouray Ice Park.