SKIING OUT WEST February 4-8 2011

We planned a ski trip heading to Vail, Aspen, and then to Grand Targhee. We had to cancel skiing at Vail due to some other commitments but proceeded on to Aspen with Boomer and Jill and then to Targhee with the Van Brunt Family and Jim Tolas and his son Alex. When we arrived in Aspen it was really cold about 15 below with big winds, we decided to go cross country skiing instead of down hill due to the temperature. Jill has a banged up knee so Bob and boomer and I headed to ski Snowmass for 2 days, with marginal visibility. It was snowing pretty hard and also really foggy in spite of the weather conditions we still had a great time eating at Cache Cache and catching up with great friends.
Grand Targhee is like no place I have ever seen. It truly is a throwback to the 70's when tow tickets were cheap and you did not have to wait to long in lift lines. We rented a house in Driggs that was the best 5 bedrooms and 4 baths a perfect fit for all of the people. While we were there we manged to get a huge storm that dumped 12 inches of powder on the mountain. The day the storm came in we chose to go to the top of the mountain only to have Jane taken down on a toboggan after vertigo attacked her and me being escorted down by 3 men. The visibility was the worst I have ever seen , you could only see about 3 feet in
front of you. I must say the next day I had 2 of my best powder runs in 20 years. We headed back to MN to get ready for our next outing (Mexico)