All good things...

Aah boo... Today was my last day skiing with Jenny and Peter. Our time together has flown so quickly. Fittingly though, today was a ripper. Whilst yesterday was freezing cold and snowing, today was back to clear blue skies. We ventured to the very furthest of the back bowls for some fresh tracks, headed over to Blue Sky Basin for my favourite tree run, Champagne Glades, and finished off the day on the near-vertical Blue Ox run on the front side. We are now all thoroughly spent.

Heading out to find some fresh powder in the remote back bowls...

Very poignantly named!

It has been such an amazing week. I have never skied so hard in my life before, and I've never enjoyed it this much either. Tomorrow Jen and Peter head back to Denver for their flight home to London. Caryn and her flat mates have kindly offered for me to stay with them for a couple more days, so my Vail odyssey continues - though I'll miss my skiing partners (read instructors!) very much.

Just one of the double black diamond runs Jen and Peter threw me down over the past week.

I will thus only fly out of here next Tuesday. That leaves a week before I fly to Tokyo. I was considering a side trip to Canada to meet up with some great friends I made in Costa Rica, but the lack of visa made that impossible at short notice. Fortunately a close friend of my sister's, Dale, has now invited me to join him in Lake Tahoe for even more skiing. Awesome!