Ski Trip to Crested Butte, Colorado

Randy and I took a trip to Crested Butte, CO with some youth, youth families and college students. There were 50 of us total and we all went on a charter bus!! It was all fun and games till we got to Monarch Pass and the weather was bad and the roads were icy. We ended up having to stop when a van pulling a trailer pulled out and began sliding backwards and sideways off the road. The bus lost momentum and started sliding as well and it was kinda scary. I'm not sure the people in the back even knew what was happening but I had a front row seat to the action and was wishing I didn't. Of course I grabbed my camera to document the fun!

The van pulling the trailer that pulled out in front of our bus! Scary!

These two trucks almost hit one another...another scary moment!

We finally made it (after 23 hours) to Crested Butte and the bus got stuck yet again when one of the snow chains broke only about 1 mile from our condos. We ended up getting towed by a front end loader the rest of way.

Day 1 of skiing consisted of getting up early to rent our ski gear (since we missed our appointment the day before after getting in much later than expected)! The snow was fresh and there wasn't hardly any crowd! The skiing was great and we had a great first day!
Day 2 of skiing was great too. We got out on the slopes as soon as they opened. The night before over 14 inches of snow fell!! We had another great day!

That night Randy and I went into the little town of Crested Butte to eat dinner and do some shopping. The town was beautiful with all the snow and lights. We ate at mexican food place and I learned that Colorado mexican food is not like Texas mexican food...but it was still good!

During our time in Crested Butte it snowed over 2 ft of snow. Cars were completely covered with snow!

We were sad to go but I was excited to get back to the boys! I missed them!

** My camera was a day off on the date stamp...so for those of you that went on the trip you may notice the date is wrong :(