Thursday, February 25, 2010

Feb 25, 2010 Colorado

We found out you cannot tow a car behind the RV unless it has a manual transmission. We had 5 vehicles between us and none with a manual transmission, well not one that ran reliably anyway. I traded my Toyota in for a used  Subaru.  A 2000 with 130,000 miles. Nice beater car to tow and have gravel thrown at it the everywhere we towed it
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the toad
Of course it needed a tow plate installed underneath it, a bike rack installed and wiring for the brakes and lights to they would operate with the buses lights, and later a hydraulic brake installed, that activated the cars brakes  when the bus brakes. Only a few thousand dollars worth of modifications.
John retired in Feb, they had his party at the end of the month. I was still working. . . He went on vacation with the FUBAR sisters and entourage. I couldn't get any time off. Called to gloat every day.  Unfortunately he came down with a chest cold and then broke a rib trying to  follow the FUBARs. Serves him right for going with out me!


I did get out a couple times . Cathy Frazier and Rosie and I met at  Breckenridge and skied a day. Just like the old days. I had always wanted to ski the lake chutes, they are only open when there is a lot of snow, usually late in the year and I go up to the top, and then chicken out. Today the girls forced me, it was wonderful and not even as hard as I kept imagining.
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Cathy, Rosie and Sue, Cathy climbing to the top of Imperial Bowl-where the lake chutes are
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This is Zut Chute, the best of the Lake chutes, looking down from the top
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If you  look really close there is a skier at the bottom left corner of Zut, looking back up
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Rosie on Snow White, Rosie and Cathy on Queen-one of our favorite runs


My niece Jill came to Aspen for a physics meeting on black holes. That is what she is researching in grad school. She had never skied before. So I went up and stayed an Martha and Jimjims. Learned some layman stuff about black holes and Jill and three other physicists took a ski lesson.
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My friend Sharon came up and skied Highlands Bowl with Martha and I, Cory, the German ski instructor Jill found at the conference
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Jill in the lesson. I went along to help. I forgot what it is like the first day. Jill skiing down a green run at Buttermilk
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Jill and I

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