Of course I planned a snowboarding trip on Presidents Day weekend and my old high school friends plan a trip for the following weekend. Brett, Karnes, Wismer, and McCoy decided to go on a quick one-day two-night trip to Snowshoe. So Teri and I joined them and hit Snowshoe for the second weekend in a row. Again we left late because of my Friday afternoon meeting. I think I got out of there around 7:30 and this time we still had yet to pack. Thankfully I hadn't unpacked from the last weekend.
After Teri packed at her place we were on our way at some late hour again. We didn't have any snow to worry about this time. Google Navigation worked on my phone for many hours in the mountains without cell coverage. We got in after 2am. We had a bigger room than last time with ski in/out but no indoor garage.
The trails were groomed unlike the previous weekend. We met up with the crew at 10:00am and immediately went to the Soaring Eagle lift because the lines at Ballhooter were insanely long. Brett was pretty good but the rest of the crew were lacking experience. I never even saw McCoy and Wismer ski the whole day. Bowlus, Karnes, Teri, and I hit the glades for a break and some fun in the powder. We tried to meet back up at 1:00 for lunch but that didn't work. We got beer and munchies at the store instead and hung out in our room for a few drinks.
We decided to check out the Powder Ridge left to see if we could find Wismer and McCoy. The lines over there were still too long to tolerate. Teri and I tried to head back over to the Soaring Eagle lift but ran out of time. After dinner we tried to meet up for night skiing at Silver Creek at 6:30 but we were all late. The lines were long there as well. It was nuts how long the lines were even compared to the previous holiday weekend. We did meet up with Chris, Brett, and McCoy and had a beer. We missed them getting off the lift and after 1.5 more runs we headed back to the room to pass out.
We slept in and I had dry conditions and daylight to help enjoy the mountain roads on the way home for the first time during both trips.
The Americans beat the Canadians in hockey! USA for the gold!
Check out the elevation change by time (as opposed to distance) and you can see as I went up slopes, bombed the mountain, and also took less steep runs across the mountain from one lift to another.
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