Skication!

So this probably came as a surprise to most of you after hearing us complain all winter about we were tired of being cold and snowed in, but apparently we decided we hadn't had enough and planned a ski trip to Snowshoe, WV. We were told by multiple people that it was a little further than some other resorts in the area but that the extra drive was well worth it for better conditions and a higher vertical drop. For my family...no it's not like skiing in Breck, but for the east coast they had a LOT of snow this year. I was surprised by the conditions for it being March and in the south east. It was little slushy especially by the end of day but really not that bad and at least it wasn't a solid sheet of ice. The weather was absolutely fantastic the entire weekend--warm and sunny, no gloves needed! So it was the perfect winter-spring transition vacation.


We both had a blast. It was Ryan's 2nd time ever and the first was not that great of an experience. However I think I won him over and he now really likes skiing! (I think it was the teacher this time...me! :) ) A trip to Breckenridge with an intermediate lesson for him is definitely the next step. The little resort town was pretty nice but a lot of the restaurants were closed for dinner since it was the first weekend of the late season. However we managed to find one that had TV's so we could watch our Yellow Jackets win their first round tourney game. The food was pretty good too--Ryan had a pimento cheese bacon burger that he really liked!

Anyways, we can't say enough about how good of a trip it was, and we came back very refreshed. We were both a little physically worse for the wear--Ryan is on crutches now from a fall on his first day but still says he wants to go back next year so I think that's a good sign. What's really nice is that it's close enough that we were able to get 3 days of skiing in by only taking Friday off from school/work!

Click HERE to see more pictures from our trip to Snowshoe! A video from the 2nd day of Ryan is below. He improved a lot over the trip! The first day he ended up going backwards down the hill every time he tried to stop. :)




Note: We just added another post right below this one from an outing before the trip. Enjoy!