Mountain Wine Tasting

We decided to spend the weekend in Keystone and bring along a bunch of wine to taste for our wedding. Each person brought along a white and a red under $15. We cooked up a great dinner and tasted all the wines, judging each as we went along. We found a few winners and will try them again over the next few months. On Saturday we took some runs at Breckenridge, then went for a hike out behind the condo on Sunday.


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Blue Sky Daze!

Check out more photos from the weekend HERE.

See Melissa skiing down Snow White HERE.

We headed up to Breckenridge for the weekend to ski with some friends and celebrate Tom's birthday. We hiked to a few spots on Saturday with Tom, Erich and Julia, including the East Twin Chutes on Peak 9 and Peak 8 to Snow White. It had snowed a bit on Friday, so we found some great turns here and there.

Saturday evening, 11 of us headed downtown to Fatty's for some beverages and awesome pizza. Then it was on to the Motherloaded Tavern for a few games of foosball and cheep PBR tallboys.

On Sunday, Melissa and I headed out by ourselves for some spring-like turns on Peak 10 including Mustang, Appaloosa, Blackhawk/Dark Rider, Cimarron and the Oatmeal Bowl. It was in the high 40's and the sun was shining. Day number 15 for me and 14 for Meliss! Not bad for living in Denver.

Finally!!

Living in Denver is much different than Breckenridge when it comes to the first snow. Breck got it's first weeks ago. Here in Den, the weather guys have been talking about snow the past week, but it never happens. Each morning I wake to green grass while Breck is blanketed under powder.

Finally this morning the grass was no longer green. It had a fresh white coating on it and the flurries were still dropping as I drove to work. Winter is here, for a few hours. It will soon be all gone as the temps rise into the 60's and 70's.

Guess it's time to head up to the mountains for some skiing!!