Kristin is excited to learn to telemark ski this season.  She has been snowboarding since high school so this will be her first season back on skis in a few years.  We both bought ski passes for Ski Cooper our local mountain outside of Leadville on Tennessee Pass, and I will also be skiing at Copper Mountain when possible.

I attended the Colorado Avalanche Information Center's annual Colorado Snow and Avalanche Seminar on Friday, October 14th, and found it to be an awesome experience.  Lots of experts abound and it was humbling to sit in a room with some of Colorado's foremost avalanche professionals.  The long-term forecast for the northern mountains of Colorado is hopeful so all fingers are crossed in the high country.

Although fall is always a belt-tightening experience in our household both Kristin and I made some sacrifices to make sure we could afford a couple of toys for the upcoming winter.  As mentioned earlier she will be trying out telemark and I will be reverting back to a locked hill for the first time since moving to Colorado in the very late nineties.  New boots from Scarpa came in the mail last week and so the excitement of fall is building and we are watching the forecast carefully.

Cheers to friends near and far and best wishes for the upcoming holiday season!