Our friends the Posts invited us to join their family, plus Lonny and Tracy, up in a rented house in Glenwood over New Years. We barely made it out of Denver before the second snow storm hit the city (I-70 was closed through Eisenhower Tunnel, so we had to divert over Berthoud Pass), but once we made it over the Continental Divide, the roads were clear and dry.
We skied two days at Sunlight (a small ski area a few minutes away from Glenwood), went snowshoeing in Aspen, played games, watched movies, and rang in the New Year - it was great!
Happy New Year everyone!
Brad, prepping to ski down Ute at Sunlight
12-29-2006 10:35 am
Shari
12-29-2006 10:51 am
Lisa and Brian
12-29-2006
Mt. Sopris, from the top of Sunlight Ski Area
12-29-2006 3:31 pm
Ginger and Sunlight Ski Area
12-29-2006 4:17 pm
Brian, with his mailbox cozy
12-29-2006 10:22 pm
Brad, napping after a long ski day
12-30-2006 8:49 am
Snowshoeing through a ritzy Aspen neighborhood
12-30-2006 12:10 pm
Heading back into the Hunter Valley
12-30-2006 12:17 pm
Brad, Sara, and Kevin ahead on the trail
12-30-2006 12:19 pm
Tracy, Andy, Shari, Lisa, and Lonny
12-30-2006 12:19 pm
Kevin and Sara
Photo by Brad Post
12-30-2006 12:23 pm
Brian and Tracy
Photo by Brad Post
12-30-2006 12:24 pm
Andy
12-30-2006 12:39 pm
Shari
12-30-2006 12:39 pm
Shari, Kevin, and Sara
12-30-2006 12:40 pm
Aspens
12-30-2006 12:42 pm
Mika, slowly heading up the trail
12-30-2006 12:42 pm
Brad, taking a photo of the aspens...
12-30-2006 12:43 pm
...this photo
Photo by Brad Post
12-30-2006 12:43 pm
Shari
12-30-2006 12:55 pm
Lonny
12-30-2006 12:55 pm
Resting along the trail with Lonny sitting in the snow
The snow was deep enough that if you knelt in it, it appeared as though you were waist deep in it...we had some fun with that later in the hike
12-30-2006 12:56 pm
Lonny and Lisa
12-30-2006 1:07 pm
View of Baldy Mountain outside of Aspen
12-30-2006 1:12 pm
Aspen Highlands and the Maroon Bells
12-30-2006 1:16 pm
Aspen Highlands and the Maroon Bells
Photo by Brad Post
12-30-2006 1:20 pm
Lonny, zipping up his coat
12-30-2006 1:24 pm
Lisa, eating a sandwich
12-30-2006 1:38 pm
A Tenth Mountain Division cabin
Photo by Brad Post
12-30-2006 1:40 pm
Fun with perspective
12-30-2006 1:40 pm
Lisa, begging for hot cocoa
12-30-2006 1:41 pm
Mika and Shari
12-30-2006 1:43 pm
The Maroon Bells in the distance
12-30-2006 1:48 pm
Brian
Photo by Brad Post
12-30-2006 1:59 pm
Lisa
12-30-2006 2:00 pm
Tracy, running through the snow
Photo by Brad Post
12-30-2006 2:05 pm
Tracy, Shari, Lonny, and Brad
12-30-2006 2:07 pm
Tracy, Shari, Lonny, and Brad
12-30-2006 2:07 pm
Lisa, making snow angels
12-30-2006 2:13 pm
Lisa, making snow angels
12-30-2006 2:14 pm
Playing in the snow
12-30-2006 2:14 pm
Lonny making a snow angel
12-30-2006 2:19 pm
Lonny
12-30-2006 2:20 pm
Andy, falling into snow angel position
12-30-2006 2:20 pm
Andy, in snow angel position
12-30-2006 2:20 pm
Sara, Kevin, and Mika
12-30-2006 2:21 pm
Shari, Kevin, Sara, and Andy
12-30-2006 2:35 pm
Tracy and the moon
12-30-2006 2:36 pm
Brad photographing Tracy
12-30-2006 2:36 pm
...for this shot
Photo by Brad Post
12-30-2006 2:36 pm
Shari and the moon
Photo by Brad Post
12-30-2006 2:40 pm
Lisa, walking back on the trail
12-30-2006 2:44 pm
The trail
12-30-2006 2:46 pm
Lisa and Brian
12-30-2006 3:02 pm
Aspen
12-30-2006 3:06 pm
"Joan" and "Jay" enjoying a day out snowshoeing
12-30-2006 3:26 pm
Tracy, with her new upholstery hat and balaclava
12-30-2006 7:21 pm
Upholstery girl and Lonny
12-30-2006 7:22 pm
Mika and Tracy dancing
12-30-2006 8:14 pm
Tracy and Ginger
12-30-2006 8:20 pm
Tracy, laughing over the word "tegmen" in Balderdash
12-30-2006 11:04 pm
Lisa, laughing as well
12-30-2006 11:04 pm
Lonny, Sara, and Kevin, playing Balderdash
12-30-2006 11:18 pm
Brad and Lisa, after having located the "cooking epoxy"
We rented a house in Glenwood Springs that was rather disorganized. The kitchen, for example, had junk drawers where you"d normally expect pot holders and the like. An example of this was the fact that just below the stove, we found epoxy in a drawer.
12-31-2006 8:39 am
Andy with morning hair (trying to avoid being photographed)
12-31-2006 9:18 am
Tracy
12-31-2006 10:22 am
Kevin, Sara, Sheri, Mika, Brad, Lisa, Tracy, and Lonny at Sunlight
12-31-2006 11:29 am
Andy, jumping off a small ridge
12-31-2006 12:32 pm
Lisa and Tracy, warming their boots
12-31-2006 1:16 pm
Andy, on a steep and rocky black run
Photo by Brad Post
12-31-2006 1:58 pm
Lisa and Lonny, skiing down "Ferret's Hollow"
12-31-2006 2:19 pm
Lonny, mid-turn
12-31-2006 2:19 pm
Sara and Kevin
12-31-2006 2:22 pm
Mika, Shari, Tracy, and Lisa
12-31-2006 2:23 pm
Lisa
12-31-2006 2:23 pm
Mt. Sopris, Capitol Peak, and Snowmass Mountain
12-31-2006 3:01 pm
Lonny, Lisa, Andy, and Tracy heading down Rebel...
12-31-2006 3:30 pm
...where this happened
12-31-2006 3:33 pm
Andy, hitting a jump late in the day
12-31-2006 4:05 pm
Brad's shot of the rising moon through the trees
Photo by Brad Post
12-31-2006 4:12 pm
What's a trip with the Post's without tire problems (remember Longs Peak?)
1-1-2007 9:44 am
Brad's monster splinter from the hand rail at Sunlight (half was already removed)