Best Weekend Yet??

     Last weekend was one of the most action packed and overall fun weekends I've had since moving to the Denver area.  Over the course of the week leading up to it, I was able to successfully create a plan which included meeting up with three old friends, one of whom I had not seen in about a year.  I opened the weekend on Friday night by picking up my buddy at the airport who flew in from Atlanta and watching some winter Olympics in preparation for the next day.  At 3:45AM I got up to let in another friend that I used to work with in western Colorado a couple years prior.  He had driven in from Oklahoma with a friend I had not met before and they were able to get about an hour of sleep before we all hit the road to Vail on Saturday morning.
     We were lucky enough to not run into any bad traffic on the way to Vail by leaving at 5:30AM or so.  We hit the slopes bright and early after meeting up with another former coworker of mine who still lives out in western Colorado.  The day was full of skiing/snowboarding new runs on the mountain, including my first double black diamond (which was quite hard) and we all had a great time before heading to Glenwood Springs for the night.  Being totally exhausted from a full day of being on the mountain, we got dinner and had a few drinks in Glenwood before ultimately hitting the hay early.  The next day I awoke early to take my Atlanta buddy to the Eagle airport, where he flew out of.  Afterwards, my Oklahoma friends and I headed to Loveland, where I had not been before but had always driven past on I-70 while heading to other destinations.  Loveland far exceeded my expectations and we were able to get in another solid day on the slopes while hitting up the upper reaches of the mountain and tackling more double blacks, which I never would have imagined I would be boarding at the beginning of the season.  I won't bore you with too many details of the day but I will leave a few pictures of our great time on the slopes.  The weekend ended by getting some pizza in Denver before saying goodbye to my Oklahoma-bound buddies.