Cloudcrofting like a BOSS – Day 2

Breakfast – leftover pizza, and random foraging.

By the way – I somehow managed to forget to make coffee. Yesterday, too. No coffee two days running.

Then we sang Auld Lang Syne.

We also played a game of fast chess. Each player was allowed 15 seconds to make their move.

Fast chess is a much better game than regular chess. I won, by the way.

Top o’ the Mountain

Then I managed to get a pretty decent video of Abbie, now well comfortable with those slippery sticks attached to her feet.

What happened next? Well, we’d skied the same trail three times now, and thought it would be good to try a new trail.

We were wrong.

Our very first run, we intended to take a green (beginner) trail called Road Runner. Just as we were about to head down, we were told that it was a very difficult trail, despite the designation. So we followed a different set of trails.

Well, now having run the mountain thrice, we thought we could conquer any green trail. And we probably could. However – even though it seemed like it should have been an easy trail to navigate, we somehow found ourselves trapped in black diamond (expert) trails, and no other way down.

It was a brutal descent, but we managed to get down without injury. Depending on how you define injury. My legs were spent on the effort. We went back to our original trail for the next run, but my legs were cramping ferociously. Abbie, however, did great. She even took one run without me.

Abbie, following the Black Diamond Debacle.

Abbie’s final run got her back to the lodge just at closing time for the mountain. Skiing is a blast.

Safely back at the house.

Then we had some goulash.

Dinner was rice, ham, broccoli, and squash mixed together. Great post-ski meal.

Yummy Goulash
Then Abbie read her bible.

We played a couple games of Mancala, including reverse-Mancala, where you try to end up with as few stones as possible.

And there was morning, and there was evening – a second day.