Anna's Awesome Adventures!!!: Another Awesome Day at Big Sky

Up at 7:10 this morning! It was nice to have a long night's rest after a great day of skiing. Breakfast in the room again -- I had a bagel with cream cheese, oatmeal, and cocoa. We loaded up all our stuff and were headed out at 8:30. We arrived at Big Sky at 9:30. We were riding the chairlift at 10:00.

It snowed overnight and there was fluffy, beautiful powder to float through! The temperatures ranged from about 0 to 20 degrees today; average was about 15. For the morning, snow fell constantly and the sun was quite rare...there was also lots of wind. But to ski through the quiet powder was so awesome, it didn't matter. Also, when we were in the trees, we were out of the wind.

We had lunch at a cafe across the hall (in the same building) from where we had lunch yesterday. The tomato basil soup with a cornbread muffin was delicious! We shared a big cinnamon roll, too.

After lunch, the sun popped out, bathing everything in a bright, happy glow. There were places where it was still cloudy and/or snowing, but mostly we had sun for the whole afternoon, which was very nice. We went up the tram to the top of Lone Peak, like we did on Sunday. We took the same run down, called Liberty Bowl. There was much more powder this time around! We had sunshine some of the way down that, making for spectacular panoramic views.

All good things must come to an end, and we headed out at 4:50 after loading everything up. As we left, the clouds at the top of Lone Peak parted and sun glowed on the entire mountain. It was SO pretty! We also enjoyed sunshine the whole drive back. We headed for West Yellowstone, enjoying towering rocky cliffs, dense forests, the Gallatin River (frozen in some places), and snow everywhere. It was a wonderful drive.

We arrived at 6 PM at our hotel in West Yellowstone, and after getting settled, we walked to supper in 10 degrees and cold wind. We had supper at the Three Bears Restaurant. I had the herb-roasted chicken with sides of creamy macaroni and cheese and vegetable fritters. We all shared an Apple Brown Betty, too...apples, cinnamon, whipped cream, and vanilla ice cream. We figured we'd earned it with the challenging skiing we'd done. My body is tired and will be happy to go to bed...but it's a good tired feeling. It gives me great pleasure to know that I have accomplished very difficult runs. We had a great time at Big Sky and I hope we can go back.

The trip isn't over yet, though...stay tuned for more exciting adventures tomorrow, Thursday, and Friday!