Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Breckenridge Colorado Day 1-4

Day 1- After a 10 hour drive from flagstaff (that is 2200 miles in about 10 days now). I made it to Breck and only 20 min after Scotty. We made a trip to the grocery store to buy some ingredients for our gourmet camp stove dinner of past and pasta sauce. Then spend another two hours looking for a camp site. We eventually found one, at about 10,000ft. Walking from the tent to the car leaves me breathing much harder than walking 50 ft should. Had our gourmet dinner next to an illegal camp fire (didn't find out it was illegal until the next day) and it was glorious...Also, at 10,000ft two beers go a long way.

Day 2- Started our search for a house at Starbucks...Yes i know starbucks. But in our defense we were told it was one of the only places with free wi-fi (lies) and it was in a sweet old yellow house. Anyway, called about 6 or 7 different places, and went and visted about 3 right away. Then we got a call for a cheap (relatively) place 200 meters from where I might work and from the ski lifts and it included heat, and we said yes. So we found a house the first day! Then we went for an epic bike ride in the rain up a trail that was less trail than it was a path amongst tree roots. Combined with the rain it made for a frustrating accent and a dangerous decent. Only crashed a couple times. This trail was right next to our camp site so we felt pretty badass biking and camping. Had gourmet leftovers for dinner.

Day 3- Scott had an interview and then we waited around for a phone call, which eventually came, so we got the application process going but still didn't know if we got the place. Then we went to another trail were I ran from and scott biked. The amount of trails in the place is ridiculous. Ultra training is going to be soo much fun next summer. Then we had some gourmet ramen and tuna seasoned with an artisan blend of chili spices. Saw a massive bear and I really do mean massive. Passed around my limited edition NAU ultimate frisbee, and went back into town for some local beer, where we met many drunk locals. Breckenridge Brewery Vanilla Porter is freaking delicious.

Day 4- Which is right now. Well not all of it is right now. This morning after/during a cup of tea continued our slacklining session that we started last night by car head lights. Now we're in a local cafe/bakery (yep no more Starbucks) waiting for our application to get approved so we can move into our sick pad bro. Which brings me to my next segment:

First impressions of Breck: Lots of bros. And I mean lots. It might get a bit overwhelming later. But we found a climbing/mountaineering/ski mountaineering shop yesterday which proved that there is a non-bro community here, which is a relief. I need to find somewhere I can buy a cord for my camera so I can upload pictures because it would make this boring post a heck of alot more interesting. Well I have to go figure out what i'm going to do today...Run? Mountain Bike? Climb? oh its a hard life.

1 comment:

  1. Nice post, I'm heading out ther in November, let us know if there is any snow hitting the resort. thanks and have fun.

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