Another great day...

We found an awesome slope today. We have been coming here for years and this was our first trip to ever try out a slope called Flintlock. It is a blue run..it is a little steep at the start and but then it opens up to a wide slope with some rolling hills. It isn't too steep and everyone of us loved it. I think it has taken the place of Tomahawk as our group favorite run. Tomahawk is still a great run...but it is has a bit more hills which can be tough on the boarders if the snow is a bit slow. Another advantage that Flintlock seems to have is that it is like people don't know it is there! There are not nearly as many people on it as there are on Tomahawk. That is another advantage for all of but it is really important to our still emerging boarders. It is hard to work on your skills when people are crowding or cutting your pattern off. I think we made more runs today than we have any day so far.

Chris had a fun adventure today also. He got to shadow the Ski Patrol today. We had discussed in the past that we thought he would love to be on the ski patrol up here. Well, he confirmed it today. We got to see him several times today racing down the hill behind the patrols to a call. Anything like this is right up his alley. Add skiing to it and he is in hog heaven. He spoke to the boss man today and he told Chris to contact him again in September about any open positions for next season and to start working out living arrangements and stuff. Chris was also invited to hang out them any he wants the rest of the time we are here. He is really excited about the possibility of doing this next season and is already planning for everyone to come here for Christmas next year to see him.

Today was Kylie's last day in ski school, so she will be spending the next 2 days hitting the slopes with the rest of us. She does so good and keeps right up with all of us.