Skiing · Always Onward Adventures

Taos Ski Trip

Summary For Sara’s mid-winter break, we flew back to Taos to go skiing. For the last 4-5 years, we have only been back in Christmas or Thanksgiving so just having a solid base of snow was pretty awesome. We got 3 days of skiing in and one rest day. Sara again is progressing leaps and bounds - she is skiing double blacks like they are no big deal and she was starting to ski parallel on the greens/blues. I’m going to apologize in advance for being a bit of a show-off in this post - I’m very proud of Sara’s skiing and I know it comes through…

Skiing

Jan Skiing Double Header

I’ve been skiing quite a bit with Sara this year - starting with a couple of days at Taos and then opening weekend at Snoqualmie and most weekends sense. This last weekend, Sara convinced me that we need to go camping more often so I decided on a double header - head up and ski on Saturday, followed by camping Saturday night, then lessons on Sunday morning and some more skiing Sunday afternoon. This was our first time van camping in a while (3-4 months I think) so there were some fresh learning pains - forgotten items, mistakes with parking, etc - but all in all a successful trip to kick-off the new year.

Winter

Hurricane Ridge & Forks

After visiting Hurricane Ridge ski area a couple of weeks ago, I thought it would be a fun trip to go back with skiis and give the $20-lift-ticket ski area a try. It was super fun and Sara had a blast - grabbing onto the rope tow was a learning experience and she realy had to put her whole body onto it to make it work. :) Anyway, more on that later.