Day 6- Injury day-everyone's hurt

Connor enjoys the snow.

Chandler shows everyone what snow looks like.

Travis and Patty have a snowball fight.

Patty, Tyler and Travis.

Patty Chandler and Travis

Tyler, Connor and Chandler, not in trouble for once.

Connor enjoying my helmet, he looks like something out of Starwars.

Day 4, Sunny and warm-The best of Spring skiing

Another beautiful day, we stopped on the way home to take a few pictures of the area. 50 on the mountain today biggest worry is sunburn, not frost bite.


Jana & Murray Yance

Travis & Patty Whittington Tyler (15), Chandler(13), Conner (7)

The Whittington / Yance Gang. It has been great to have most of the family here, wish Brooks and Leigh Ann could have joined us, but somebody has to work.

Looking down the valley towards Pagosa Springs.

Conner checks out the helmet, won't be long before he fills it up. Connor is skiing great after two days in school with the Wolf Pups.

All schools in Texas and Oklahoma were out for Spring break the same week and I think most of them are skiing at Wolf Creek, here Tyler and handler stand in the lift line waiting to go to the top of the mountain.

Lunch time is a great adventure, time to eat, nap and lie about how great you can ski.

Tyler and Murray check out the area, still over 100 inches of snow on the ground here at Wolf Creek. (That's 8 ft 4 inches of the white stuff)

You can't fill a teenager up, here Tyler demonstrates the proper way to eat chips, the boy is a bottomless pit.

Lunch time discussions help solve all the worlds problems. With everyone here skiing you would never know we were in a major recession, we are doing our part to support the economy.

Chandler is fast becoming a good snowboarder, the rest of the family has given up on this sport.

Conner learns to ride the chair lift.

Connor has surprised us all, he took to skiing like a duck takes to water, Travis says he skis almost as well as Patty who has skied for a couple of years. The key is to start young.

It has been another great day, sunny, warm and family near, now if only the money does not run out. See you tomorrow.

Sunshine, fresh snow, what could be better???

Day two, first ski day, bright and beautiful, we were up early and it had snowed a bit overnight so we were eager to get to the slopes.
Travis (son) Tyler (15), Connor (7) and Chandler (13 & and already 6' 2") great grandsons.

Good thing we have a pickup, for all the ski gear.

We can even smile early in the morning, we try to be standing in the lift line when it opens, lifts are operating from 0730 until 5PM, makes for a long day on the mountain. This is the before picture.

When we arrived at the mountain to get skis we were surprised at the large crowd. Both the Texas School system and colleges had spring break this week, Wolf Creek is expecting big crowds this week. Lift lines were not to bad today though.

Two lovely ladies, Patty and Jana pose for a shot prior to getting on the slopes.

Patty having a great time on the snow, only later would she discover her leg was badly bruised.

Judith on her last ski run, she has decided to give up skiing for some sport that does not hurt her knees so badly. Sorry to see her go but I still plan to ski for several years (Good Lord willing)

Murry after a long day on the slopes, no he did not fall and get hurt, he looks like that all the time.

Larry waiting for the family, at days end.

The gang after a great family day on the slopes, Wolf Creek may never be the same. I took this shot just before we loaded up to come down the mountain.

Another great day with the family, no one seriously hurt, sunny weather with temps about 42, so near perfect.

Day One Albuquerque, NM to Pagosa Springs, CO

We started off this morning in Abq, we had a few hours after Judith, Jana and Murray arrived so we went to Old Town, which is where the first settlers came too in 1489, the area was called "New Spain " at that time. We visited a park near old town that depicted the journey.


Here Jana and Murray stand near a lady and a child on their ass, that's the ass on the right.

Larry attempting to ride the pig, that's Larry with the hat.

A beautiful display when we were not fooling around, there were 60 folks that made the original trip and many folks in NM can trace their roots back to this first party.

Jany, Murray, horse and unknown cowboy.

Jana and her new friend that does not talk back.

Judith and Larry are coned into working with the street musicians & Larry can't even carry a tune. They felt so sorry for screwing up the music they had to buy a CD.

The original mission built in 1500's (remodeled several times) but still an active church with about 300 members.

Then it's on to the commissary to purchase food for 9 for the ski week. Small home loan is in order, naturally Murray and myself helped (they allowed us to push the carts). Didn't get a shot of the truck loaded but it was not a pretty sight, bags, skis and groceries all mixed up together.

Not much snow on the drive up through Santa Fe. Lots of dry looking almost desert.

We announced our arrival in Pagosa springs by running into the lamp post, but nothing was damaged.

Joy upon joy Judith prepares another meal, I really look after this gal, nice trip, great condo with full kitchen and 9 starving folks to feed.

Tomorrow will be a better day, we plan to be on the slopes when the lifts open and ski until they close, maybe some pictures with snow on the next post.