Skiing Snow Range Ski Area 2023

 We had booked our ski trip to Snowy Range Ski Area back about a month ago. Unfortunately, our streak of scheduling travel during bad weather has continued. We were set to leave after school/work on Wednesday. However, a blizzard was forecast to move through the region Tuesday night into Wednesday. If we wanted to make it to the ski area, we would have to leave early. After work on Tuesday, we quickly gathered up our gear and packed and hit the road. A light rain fell as we drove into Wyoming. Luckily, it was too warm to freeze. We made it to Cheyenne to discover that I-80 was closed. We dropped down into Colorado, drove through Owl Canyon and up into Laramie on US 287. The first snowflakes started to fall as we pulled into town.

Since we had arrived a day earlier than anticipated, we had a day to explore Laramie. We started off by checking out the University of Wyoming Geology Museum. 

You don't see a sign like this every day!

Tracks in the concrete leading to the museum.

Honestly, I think it's more of a paleontology museum. We checked out some of the interesting fossil skeletons on display.

After exploring the Geology Museum, we drove across campus to the Art Museum. After enjoying the art, we went downtown for lunch at Born in a Barn, and then Noelle and I drank a beer at Coal Creek TAP.

Thursday morning we got up early, ate breakfast at the hotel, and then made the drive to Snowy Range Ski Area. 

We skied a few runs before Sierra's lesson at 10 a.m. Then, Noelle and I were able to ski together for a bit 

before we picked Sierra up at noon and ate lunch in the lodge. Then, we headed back out for some skiing. 

Sierr's skills have really improved! We skied until about 3, at which point we were all very tired. We headed back to the hotel and ate a delicious dinner at Sweet Melissa, a vegetarian restaurant.

On Friday, we headed back to the mountain, a little later than the previous day, since we already had our rental gear. We had a great day of skiing. Sierra has really become a proficient skier! We skied both greens and some of the easier blue runs. We even skied one of the more difficult blue runs, the steep Virginian Trail. 

I took some videos over the course of our two days at Snowy Range. Here's the video of our trip: