Well I survived the plane rides to Maine and back with no problems! The first flight on Thursday morning was from Denver to Baltimore, Maryland. This was one of the longer flights I’ve been on in awhile. My addiction to playing sodoku while on planes helped pass the time well. After a quick stop in Baltimore we finally arrived in Manchester, New Hampshire. This was the same airport we used for our trip to Killington last year.

We met up with our friend Tracey, who was flying in from Chicago, picked up the rental car and were on our way. We had a pretty good drive ahead of us, but passed the time with looking for moose and playing with the car’s Neverlost system. In case you were wondering, I still have yet to see a moose. After a few hours drive we finally arrived at Sunday River. This marked my 35th visited state!

From there we got the keys to our condo in one of the North Peak Buildings and later met up with all of the others who were driving in from Boston. After catching up for a couple of hours we all headed to bed so we could get an early start on the slopes Friday morning.

The next couple of days was spent skiing and snowboarding throughout the entire resort. Though the runs are not as long as they are out here in Colorado, the conditions were still pretty good especially when considering the lack of snow so far this year. There were some icy spots and packed surfaces that lead to some nasty bruises for some in our party. I don’t think I took any really bad falls throughout the two days, and I am in very little pain today. I must be getting better!

The one thing that was not fun was the temperature. Each morning when we woke up it was below zero! This is not taking into account the wind chill, this was the air temperature only. Also keep in mind that this is the Fahrenheit scale and not Celsius. It did warm up late morning the second day, which led to some great conditions. As we were leaving on Sunday morning, it started to snow. This seems to be a new trend for us, leaving the mountains just as it starts to snow. Perhaps we’ll have better luck this coming weekend.

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