Today Dan and I took the sleds up and out of Vail Pass to find a way to Vail's Blue Sky Basin.  After doing two steep hill climbs out of Lime creek we finally made it!    

Dan in Blue Sky with the Vail back bowls in the background. 

The view from Blue Sky

Here's the first gnarly hill climb out of Lime Creek to get towards Blue Sky Basin

Today Melanie and I took the sled up to the hill and went for a ride on a beautiful sunny day.

Melanie checking out the views 

The sled that make's it happen 

Melanie 

Last Saturday Melanie and I helped out Todd with digitalizing his old film slides.   

Last Friday Melanie and I drove to Denver to do some shopping and to relax in Washington Park.  

Today after waiting for weeks I finally got my 50mm prime f 1.4 !!!!!  Now I'm ready to nail down some sharp shots. 

Today Dan, Melanie and I took the sleds up into the mountains of Red and White.  The weather was warm yet there was still plenty of snow to go around.  We're not done with winter yet!!!!

Melanie sun baking on our lunch break

Melanie 

View at Beaver Creek from our Summit

View South West toward Edwards 

Yesterday (Wednesday) Jeff Damico and I drove to Vail Pass to sled around the top of the Rockies.  Here I am sledding down from the top of Machine Gun Ridge. 

Jeff Damico a top Machine Gun Ridge

Snow coming down above the Rockies

Last Sunday was the last day of Vail's Ski Resort.  The weather was sunny and warm, perfect for the pond skimming event pictured here. 

Mel and I met up with Nick, Jen and Bill for some La Cantina before the concert.

The best part of the last day of Vail was the O.A.R concert in the village

Mel and I watching the concert

Good Morning Vail!!! at 6:30am  

Vail will be celebrating it's last day of the season with pond skimming, grill out in Blue Sky, Funny costumes, and the OAR concert.  Vail finished it's season with a 72" mid mountain base with a grand total of 437" of snow!!!!!  I guess we can't really complain.   

Today was the second to last day of Vail Mountains 08-09 winter season.  With midwinter skiing conditions we had such a great powder day!

Mel in the tree's of lower Tea Cup bowl

The visibility up top of Vail today

Yesterday Melanie and I sledded up to the cabin to grill out some lunch and to fix up a old sled.  The weather turned out to be great and still lot's of snow in the hood. 

Our mission for today was to install new clutch belt and dig out the sled that was left behind. 

Yeah the old sled needs some love 

Today Dan and I spent the day up on Vail pass to find ourselves in some fresh Pow! 

Dan the man making some morning turns 

Dan drop'n it like it hot!

Me surf'n the snow

The Rock

Some local rippers setting up the money booter 

Shrine Mountain Inn Cabin

Dan play'in around 

Dan going for the highmark

the man behind the pictures

After a couple hours at the local sled shop our sled was redialed to perfection!!!!!!!!!!!

The meadow mountain cabin up top with lots of wind loaded snowpack. 

Gore Range from top of the meadow