Jan 26, 2014

Another early start to the day. Ryan and I made breakfast and then headed over for day two at Elk. It was supposed to be much colder today, but it felt warmer with the sun out. After a while it went away and I felt the cold even more.

There were far fewer people there this time so that was a plus. It was nice not dealing with groups of people getting in the way as much. The trails were groomed even more nicely this time. We spent some more time on the far side of the mountain, but soon returned because there isn't that much over there.

Once my goggles fogged up enough times to be annoying and we got cold enough, we decided to head out. It was a good day of skiing, but it was also starting to snow and we thought it might be wise to head home at that point.

Once we packed up the house it was time to head out. The ride home was interesting as my windshield washer fluid was not working so with the snow and the salt spray from the road it became almost impossible to see at times. We had to pull over once or twice to clean it. I tried to fix the fluid to no avail. Once we got closer to Philly the roads were better so it wasn't a problem anymore. Once I got home I was tired, but I ended up staying up late watching shows anyway.

Jan 25, 2014

Ryan and I were up pretty early making breakfast and getting ready to head over to the mountain. The nice thing about having two cars is that we don't have to all be on the same schedule. And it's nice that it's about a four-minute drive to the resort. We put our gear on at the car and took the shuttle up to the ticket office and then we hopped on the lift.

It was a cold but nice day. The trails were all pretty good, and we didn't see many lines until after lunch. Even then it was mostly just people congregating and getting in the way rather than actually being in a line that we had to wait for. We did a couple of races down a trail called Kickapoo. Some of the turns were a little icy so that made it fun. Other than that we did a good selection of black and blue trails and called it a day after about five hours.

We came back to the cabin and hung out for a while, waiting for the others to come back. Once they did, Ryan and I went down to Scranton to get dinner at Damon's. After a filling meal and a couple of beer samples (Sam Adam's Cold Snap, and Susquehanna Toboggan; both very good) we headed back for the night. Ryan turned in early and I stayed out with the rest of the gang drinking a bottle of wine and talking for a few hours. Sometimes that's the best part of the ski trip.

Jan 24, 2014

We had a good day at work with the science class today. The students were all good despite not getting their usual "fun Friday." After work I stopped at Shop Rite for food and came home to pack for the weekend. After I got everything together I went to get Ryan, then we went to another Shop Rite to get groceries and I picked up a bottle of wine.

The drive up was a little long, but not too bad. It took about three hours or so. We stopped at a rest stop and got coffees. At least the weather was good. Once we got there it was just us for a while. We realized there was barely any phone service in the cabin. An hour or so later Tracy, Mike, and Christie showed up and we stayed up talking for a while before bed.