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Last year for New Years we hit the slopes. That was the only time in 2009 that we did. Today, for New Years 2010, we hit the slopes again, though this time it is hopefully the start of an active year for us in the mountains! We took our neighbors to Arapahoe Basin early this morning,
We made it to the Salt Lake City airport. Our vacation is just about over. We had a grea time here in Utah, Natalie was on the slopes 4 days, I was up there for 3. The last day was amazing because there was 10+ inches of new snow so I got to experience my first snowboarding in powder! I got stuck. It was a blast though, I can't wait to go again, hopefully very soon. More when we get back into...
I spent the last two days taking it easy on my abused body. Yesterday we went into town and did some walking around Main Street. I then spent most of the evening working on the Engage: Publish and Wiki modules for DotNetNuke. Today I stayed home all day and worked on some much needed modifications to the Wiki module, I had hoped to get it ready for another beta today but I wasn't able to get everything done that I needed. We were supposed to get a few big storms in the past two days. The storm for Wednesday didn't amount to much, though the one this evening was quite a storm. We'll see how much snow it actually deposited on the mountain as we head off to Park City Mountain Resort again tomorrow. Hopefully it will have dropped at least a few inches over there, perhaps they will even update their blog mentioning the results! More pictures and such tomorrow, perhaps even video if I can get the damn GoProVideo camera...
So today I chose to rest my aching bones by sleeping in while the wife took off with her father. After the bro/sis in laws showed up we headed off to the slopes. They were fortunate enough to get a free lift ticket for today as they flew in today and filled out a form online before they came. Talk about a deal, they got to ski today for $30 (for rentals), while I spent $90 just for a half day pass and my rental. I felt much better today, though it took me a little while to get there. I got a new board and boots today, the whole setup felt weird, I couldn't get my right foot to work right so I took a seat and adjusted the bindings myself. Not really knowing what I was doing I had hoped that turning my right toe more towards the front (I ride regular not goofy) would help. Sure enough it did. Once adjusted the board felt just like yesterday. From there I was more comfortable and running around the slopes. I definitely took some harder falls today than I did yesterday but that can be attributed to the fact that I was pushing harder today than I was yesterday. I'm not sure what the plan is for tomorrow yet, we're getting some much needed snow now. If it lets up we might give it a go again tomorrow, otherwise we might wait until Thursday and spend tomorrow doing some other activities around town. No photos from today, I tried hooking up my new camera from GoProCamera.com today but I wasn't able to get the thing working. If I don't have any luck later this week I might have to return the thing. Hopefully it will work though and I will be able to get some cool action footage (read: me falling a lot) Till the next...
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