Day 23 - It's all about the SuperBowl playoffs

A slow start to the day today, we headed out about 9.30 for another day's skiing at Snowmass. Today was all about the SuperBowl play offs. Denver Broncos were playing this afternoon and being a Colorado team there was an air of interest around the mountain. There were a few people out skiing in their Broncos tops this morning. I must say blue and orange are great team colours! It did seem that it was much quieter this afternoon on the slopes. Tonight we are sitting watching the San Francisco 49ers play the Seattle SeaHawks. I find myself cheering for the SeaHawks purely because I saw a story on the TV this morning about one of their players who is deaf. I know Casey, back in Melbourne is happy the Broncos won and will be barracking for them to win the SuperBowl.

Anyway back to today's skiing. We were interested to see if the snow conditions had deteriorated, given that it was nearly a week with no fresh snow. When I checked the grooming report this morning, I did notice that not as many runs as usual had been groomed. I was a bit peeved about that - but later on I did discover there was a very good reason for it. The groomed runs ended up being quite icy but the runs that hadn't being groomed were much nicer to ski on, softer and easier to control what you were doing. The downside of course is that ungroomed snow is harder on the legs. We didn't stop for morning tea because we started late, so skied till lunchtime. Most of that was ungroomed snow, moguls and tree skiing. All good fun!!  We did head off after lunch to ski an area we hadn't been to before but after a couple of detours on the way our legs said that's enough! We can't do any more moguls or heavy snow, time to go home.

So we headed down to Snowmass Mall - where we dropped our skis in for a tune, I bought a new ski jacket and we stopped and had a gluhwein. It was very pleasant sitting in the sun, watching the world go by and listening to the cheers as people watched 'the game' on TV at the bar across the way. Walking up the 100 or so stairs to get back to our condo was not quite so much fun.

The detours were my fault - where is Casey and her inbuilt GPS when you need her!!! The plus side is we did ski some very nice runs with a few bumps and trees and very nice scenery.

It was Margo's suggestion to ski the area we hadn't skied yet - so we have a rain-check and will do that tomorrow.

Margo's beloved Snowmass is not infallible - some runs were a bit icy - the plus side is that Margo is now keen to ski the bumps and tree runs as the snow there is heavier but not icy so easier to turn. Our skis suffered in Mammoth so given that there is more ice and our skis need a tune and wax, we have them in for a full tune overnight - this will help if it stays a bit icy - but if we just ski the bumps it won't matter (except we only last 1/2 the time due to knee/leg/hip/shoulder soreness.)

Broncos won, I was "rooting" for them but also have a soft spot for the 49ers - they lost so no problem now - go Broncos for the superbowl!! (plus I didn't like the body language of the 49ers coach so had already decided to drop them!!

Margo is the boss of posting pics - so you won't see them, but remember the day she took out the SLOW sign? We have been documenting the bruise development via a picture each night (after Margo announces - its bigger!!) - I must say it is an impressive bruise but you will all have to lobby Margo to get a look at it!!!

Just to prove John wrong - here it is!