2012 Breakdown

California Christmas!

New skis for the 2012 season!
Atomic Access

Reunited with ∆Z juniors who got back from abroad!

 patriots vs. broncos game - pats pats pats!

∆Z girls go to BΘΠ formal:

Making cookies for K∑ with Betty Crocker:

Note to all sorority girls: frat kitchens are a scary scary place!

Some skiing adventures:

Skiing this year wasn't as good as other years. In fact, it was pretty sucky. When it did snow, it wasn't much and didn't last long. Sometimes you had to wait all day for it to even get soft enough to shred. And the few times we got powder, it was gone in a flash. Me and Steeze had a good day at Copper (below) and quaffed the fresh on the back bowls :)

 with steezy at Copper Mtn.

Went to Aspen for the weekend (Feb. 9-12):

We stayed with Oley's family - they are such awesome, nice, cool people! - and skiied fo' free one day and hiked a nearby mountain the other day.

me, stu, oley, and doug on top of Aspen Mtn.

Performed "Wannabe" at Gamma Phi-Oke with other ∆Zs:

We pulled it together at the last second. Good effort ladies :)

Discovered the magic of the song "Call Me Maybe" with Stu:

Finals week was just full of this song. And now it's in constant rotation in my playlists.

And that's basically my winter quarter! Spring has just started and I can't wait for all the fun times that are about to come...

xxo, S

May Day

Happy May, everyone!!! Ginger and I celebrated with our friend Cooper (not my brother) by skiing at A-Basin. That's right - skiing in MAY. All my snowbunnies out there: be jealous ;)

We stopped along the way to take a few pictures at the Continental Divide sign, which I've been wanting to do ever since I got to DU. Don't be fooled by the elevation on the sign here. The Basin is even higher - we skied at almost 14,000 ft!

How's the weather back home? Warm, sunny, flowers, greeeeeen and springyyyy??
xxo, S

NEON POLLUTION

Today is April Fool's Day and so it's a tradition of ski mountain locals to dress really crazily and ski all over the mountain. These are our pictures. I'm sure you get the idea...

xxo, S

Second ski weekend in a row

This weekend, my friend Ginger's mom came out to Denver and took us both skiing at Breck. It was the perfect weekend to go! We had fresh powder on both Friday and Sunday, sun on Friday and Saturday, and hot tubbing all three days :)

It was also the first weekend of President's Week, or February break, on the east coast... which I miss... because we don't get that in college...
But hey! it's college, what other kind of vacation do I need ;) (Just kidding, Dad)

Anyway, the skiing was great and I had a fun time with Ginger, her aunt (who also came out) and her mom. We talked about boys and parties and wine - such a girly weekend :)

It feels good to be back with my corner room crew though! (shout out: NESSIE!)

xxo, S

Winter Carnival - day two

Yesterday, I skied another beautiful, sunny day, all day. Went in for lunch to our sweeeeeet suite and had two sandwiches, I was so hungry. Unfortunately, my favourite lifts were closed because there were really high winds at the top. Good thing I got such good skiing in on Friday!! :)

Saturday night was one big party - we went to the hot tub, made a big dinner, played music and froze our butts off!

friday night sunset

Can't wait for next year's Winter Carnival!

xxo, S

Winter Carnival - day one

My friend and I arrived at Winter Park Resort at noon today, checked into our awesome room, and... the weekend has begun!

I skied all afternoon, doing ten runs in three hours. The mountain was beautiful - sunny, powder, and not crowded. Couldn't ask for anything better.

Me, Ginger, Sorry, and other girls went food shopping (always fun) for everyone staying in our room. Then we made dinner. They're cleaning up now (I have a stomach ache) and then we're going to the hot tub.

That's it for day one of Winter Carnival! More posts tomorrow and Sunday :)

xxo, S

Saturday at Breckenridge

I've never been to Breckenridge before, but it's so fun!! The town is super cute and of course the skiing is great. My friends and I drove up in the morning, watching the sun rise; we stayed all day and saw the sun set over the mountains.

on the t-bar

the "i miss you" sign show itself again

fire pit in town

It was a perfect ski day. And this was the first time I've ever skied without a helmet! See the cute hat? :) Helmets are definitely still good for when it's cold, though. We're trying to hit up Keystone next weekend after our HRTM class goes to Vail.

xxo, S