Over the weekend we also did some snowboarding at Breckenridge. Prior to this trip, I’d been to Breck once before but it was during the fall. Though there was no snow, we still were able to check out the town and do a little hiking. I really enjoyed that trip, and just as before I really enjoyed our trip over the weekend.

Once again we woke up early on Saturday morning and were on the road around 7am. Without traffic and snow the drive should take about an hour and a half, but we’ve been finding out that this isn’t going to happen. The morning drive was actually one of the easiest, that is until the evening drive. We arrived around 9am (the time the lifts open) and quickly grabbed our gear and headed toward the new Breck Connect gondola. I guess prior to the gondola being built, you had to catch a bus from the parking lots to one of the bases. That sounds like a big pain to me, so I’m glad that the gondola is now open.

We spent about four hours on the slopes. We are both quickly getting back into the swing of things and we even found ourselves in the terrain park at one point. We tried the little half pipe but neither of us had any idea of what to do. We then found a couple of “small” jumps. These are labeled small on the maps, but they are definitely big enough for me! I got my back leg real good one time and I’m not sure I’ll be back on the jumps anytime soon.

Learning our lesson from the weekend prior, we left between two and three to make the drive back to Denver. This was the easiest drive to date and we made it back in exactly one and a half hours, just in time to catch the Mammoth game.