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Back to work after a week in Steamboat. Trip didn't start out great - first I got a flat tire on my car the night before we were leaving. I am grateful it only happened as I drove into the garage, and not at work / gym / store, but still... Then we missed our flight... Woman at check-in gave us grief for having "items of clothing" in the boot bag, so we had to negotiate with her for several minutes - no one is saying anything about us then having to hurry. Expedia showed the flight leaving at 7:30. We get there at 7:10, and the flight has taken off! It turned out it was scheduled to leave at 7:15 (David had even called Expedia day before to check on time - lesson learned, go directly to airline...), but they decided to take off early and pulled out at 7:09. I find that very strange - we were checked in at the airport, and had checked in 5 pieces of luggage - I thought flights weren't meant to take off w/o the passengers of checked bags??? Anyway, no other flights available to Steamboat that day with any airline, so we ended up taking a United flight to Denver and then renting a car for the 4 hour drive. We get to Steamboat, go out to airport to pick up our luggage, but only one bag had arrived. We called Delta, who said it was not their problem as we had flewn United, and that we should have made the claim in Denver (???? At that point we didn't know the luggage wouldn't be in Steamboat!). Anyway, several calls to United (very helpful) and Delta (much less so), we found out our remaining luggage was in Salt Lake City, and "looked" like it was due to go on Delta's flight the next day. We couldn't decide whether to rent gear/buy clothes and have the airport deliver the luggage, or go out and mean the plane (due 12:15) and then hit the slopes for an afternoon - we ended up doing a combination - we rented board & boots for me (my binding was broken, so needed to be fixed) and then went to the airport. Luckily, the luggage arrived fine, and we hit the slopes around 2 pm. My rented boots were too small, so I went back to the condo to change into my own and managed to do one more run before they closed the lifts.

 

The rest of the week was fine! Only one day with fresh snow, but that was a great morning. Of course, it has now snowed for a couple of days straight there, and forecast says it will snow a few more days. Typical - oh well, nothing wrong with our own slopes - Stevens got 20 inches last night, Baker 17

Snow has dumped over the Pacific Northwest. Went up to Baker for the first time for the season Sun, Nov 13 - earliest I've ever skied/boarded! David and I also headed up to Whistler for Thanksgiving. I boarded 3 out of the 4 days - not fit/strong enough to keep going day after day - need to work on that. Whistler was OK - when we got to the village there was no snow in the village or on the hills coming down to the village - but it was OK on top, and it got colder and snowed while we were there, so each day was better then the last. I'm still a wimp at the traverses (narrow/flat)...

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