Big Powderhorn Mountain

We spent most of our time on the intermediate blue runs as we found those to be easier than the too flat beginner runs. One thing that was a little annoying was the long flat areas between the drops. We had to be careful to gather enough speed to make it across the whole flat area to the next dropoff.

There was one run we liked that had a black diamond section called the Double Barrel. We decided to give it a try since it was pretty empty. Lily called it a day after going down once. Mark and I gave it three tries never quite making it down without at least a couple specacular falls.

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You can barely seen the sign with the heavy snow falling.	The runs visibile from the parking lot.
	Mark poses just before a nice drop-off.	Lily approaches the drop-off.
This was by far the most scenic area.
That's me on my knees the first time on a black diamond run.	So far so good on the Double Barrel run.	Now I think I have the hang of it.
Yippie! Made it down!		Mark and I squeezing in a couple more runs at the end of the day.
Trying the other side of the Double Barrel run.		It almost looks like I know what I'm doing here.
Ta da!!
The heat was off in our hotel room when we got back so we kept most of our warm clothes on until it warmed up.		Here's a quick clip taken using the goofy video feature of my camera. This is of Lily nearly doing a low speed Sonny Bono. QuickTime Movie - Approx. 474K RealVideo - 56K modem or faster stream (18 seconds)

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