February 5-11, 2006
Some of The Coesters at Keystone
Sher gets most of the credit for planning this trip and selecting a wonderful home in Keystone that was large enough for the eighteen "Coesters" that showed up. The home had a finished basement with ping pong, Foosball, TV area and a piano that kept everyone busy while not skiing. The view over the snow covered meadow was fantastic with towering mountains in the distance,
W e arrived on Sunday after spending Saturday night at Dean's house in Parker. The drive up the mountain was easy in direct contrast to the scary ride Stephen and I had in December in a storm.
the skiing at Keystone was some of the best we've experienced and we've skied at many resort. There were many steep long blue runs, a few groomed black diamonds and fun green runs as long as 3 1/2 miles long which is a long trip down the mountain. Diamondback, Mozart, and Starfire were challenging but made us feel like real skiers. Schoolmarm was the long green run that was lots of fun for Yvonne. For young AJ and Dan there were lots of mogul runs. Dan got Dean and me off on Oh Bob! which was a mogul run from the top of the mountain all the way down. Quite an experience, but satisfying after finally making it down without injury.
Yvonne and I tried Arapahoe Basin one day but it was easy too easy or too hard (Yvonne liked the easy) so we left after two runs to return to Keystone.
If I can remember everyone we had Jan, Sher, Seal, Scoobie, Sam, Debbie, Dan, Erica, Cody, Larry, Joe, Danah, Dan, Angelika, Christine, Alex, Dean, Yvonne and Steve, and two friends of Larry's
Our fights both to and from Denver were disastrous with a seven hour wait at Orlando and eighteen hours at Denver until we finally got on the redeye. Flying standby has become almost impossible and very frustrating
It was a great ski trip and a fine time with the family once again.