White Christmas

5 days in South Lake Tahoe to celebrate Christmas the right way with some friends.

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Alicia and I took a Snowboarding lesson together on a beautiful sunny day. I got a good feel for it and I would definitely do more of it though skiing is still the best.

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And then we got 2 feet of fresh snow the evening before we left. Look at those beautiful car sculptures.

Quasi-Spring Skiing

Awesome ski weekend with a good crew up in South Lake Tahoe and Kirkwood.

We had great snow on both days with blue skies and “warm” weather on Sunday. Arnaud and I took everybody for a whirlwind tour around the mountain to some of our favorite runs. And since we were going hard and the weather was so nice, we had to stop for the picture at the top of chair 10.

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That was really close to the perfect ski weekend.

Thanks El Niño

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A three day ski weekend with my friend Arnaud is the best way to enjoy the great Sierra snow that Kirkwood has to offer. And even if El Niño is bringing us tall servings of snow this year, we lucked out and found ourselves skiing during one of the best weekend of the season so far: 3-5 feet of fresh powder for us.

I had not skied for almost a year and my legs were done by the end of that trip. Hopefully, that is a good training for my incoming half marathon.