We checked out of our hotel early and headed up to Vail. We spent most of the day skiing in the back bowls. It was one of our best days on a mountain ever, with great powder, good visibility, and no lines. In retrospect, it might not have been the brightest idea to do leg focused lifts the day before, but we made it through and ended the day exhausted. Our only complaint for the day was the difficulty of getting to the Mongolia bowl, particularly for Shawn who discovered that they've found a way to make T-bars even worse for snowboarders: the paddle lift.
After we finished we headed back to Denver and spent the night at a hotel close to the airport. First thing in the morning Shawn caught an Uber to the airport to head to Seattle for a work trip. Meanwhile, Bryn worked in Denver for the day before meeting up with our recently-moved friends for a Row House class.
It was a quite week of work at the trailer for Bryn. Grocery shopping was the only outing until Friday, when she left for Denver.
Shawn returned from his work trip Friday afternoon, and Bryn came into Denver to work for the day and pick him up. We had planned to work at a library for the afternoon, but it turned out to be completely full so we instead went to the nearby Black Sky Brewery to finish off the workday. Then we headed over to our friends' townhouse and spent the evening with them. We all went out to dinner at Culinary Dropout before heading back to their place to sleep and try to beat the Saturday mountain traffic.
We left the townhouse in Denver before 7, but a crash on the interstate diverted us through Golden instead. While we were working our way through that pass, traffic built up to extreme levels. Eventually our ETA to Frisco (not even the mountain) reached 10:30 and we decided to just head to the campground instead, as we wouldn't even make it onto the mountain much before noon by the time we made it there, ate an early lunch, and suited up. Our friends had warned us about this kind of traffic, but we had fortunately missed it on all of our previous trips up.
The 80 miles back to the campground took us less time than the estimate to do the last 30 to Frisco. When we got home we took a nap, as Shawn was exhausted from his busy work trip and waking up early to try to beat the traffic. We spent the afternoon catching up on the mail, which our neighbor in Boston sent along to our friends in Denver. We had a chill night in playing a Jaws of the Lion scenario. It was supposed to be our second to last mission in the campaign, but we luckily pulled another random event side quest to give us one additional session before we finish.
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