Back to Eldora

We missed out on our traditional Christmas Eve skiing this year. We were turned away after the lifts closed due to high winds that day. We returned a few days after Christmas and had a great day skiing.

Here are 4/5ths of us at 10,800 feet ready to do another run.


Becky, Colin and Austin on the Challenge lift, while Kenny and I overtook them from the Cannonball lift that runs parallel.


I always liked the signs at Edora; no apologies for extreme terrain. All resorts have Black-diamonds, many have double-black diamonds, but few have skull & crossbones.

98 degrees warmer!

Monday morning Denver set a new record for cold temperatures, -19F! The former record for Dec 15 was -6F. Brrr it was bitter cold and I had to drive to the airport for an early morning flight. The flight was delayed two hours because of frozen fuel lines on the catering trucks. By the time I arrived in Orlando later on Monday it was 98 degrees warmer than it was when I started. How do you dress for that?

Anyway, I took a lunch break from my meetings and took a walk along the beach.


But don't dare walk on this beach barefoot, unless you keep a look out where you step. I saw dozens of these little blue jellyfish, just washed up on the shore.

It turns out this is a Portuguese Man o' War and according to the entry in Wikipedia, they are very venomous.

Webcam Postcard

Originally uploaded by D.Broberg

This postcard comes from my automated webcam which is looking west and happened to capture a colorful sunset.