The first snowboarding day of the season.  It took a long time to get our passes (mine didn’t come in the mail).  The lift line was ridiculous.  There were only two icy half runs open.  But it was sunny and we were on our boards and I was hanging with Doug, so add it all up and it was a great day!

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First Snow

I woke up to snow.  Oh my god I love snow.  Just seeing it on the trees and shuffling it around with my feet made me so happys.  What problems?  What stress?  Who cares if I’m alone?  Job Schmob.  How does frozen water do this?  It must be magic.

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Still no interview for Antarctica.  The HR guy said maybe next week.  Next week I have to pay for my TEFL class or not.

Today was run errands day.  I went for a hike.  Not sure why, but lately when I hike I do it with my glasses off.  Everything is blurry, but I still feel compelled to do it.  Maybe one day I’ll figure out why.  The pictures do not represent the way I actually saw it.

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Ouray, Silverton, Telluride

I had planned a trip to Ouray with a friend of mine that I haven’t hung out with in a long time.  We were going to go climbing and mountain biking and I was so looking forward to reconnecting with him.  It would have been last weekend, but after I made campground reservations, he told me he might not be able to go and he’d let me know when he found out.  Time came and went and he never gave me a definite answer.  So, I made plans to go to Grand County last weekend instead.  The campground let me reschedule my reservation for this weekend and Cynthia and I went.  Again, this is part of my plan to spend some quality time with Colorado before I leave.  It was also great to spend quality time with Cynthia.  We spent a day in Telluride too.  I have never been there and fell in love love love with Telluride.  And surprise! It was the weekend of the Telluride Mushroom Festival.  Oh, small mountain towns…..  I’ll let the pictures tell the rest of the story.

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Flat Tops

I decided that I want to spend my weekends out in nature.  That is the reason I moved to Colorado in the first place.  I want to spend some quality time with Colorado before I leave her.  I started this quest with a weekend with my friend Doug who lives near Steamboat Springs.  We went hiking and 4wd at the flat tops.  We had so much rain this spring.  This is the most wildflowers I have ever seen.  It was like hiking in a botanic gardens.  Well played mother nature, well played.

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