Melissa and Emily were supposed to go with us, but Emily went to New York with her father instead, and Melissa decided not to go for some reason I can't remember. Her new job maybe? Or maybe she hadn't started working there yet. Anyway, I asked Gene Dickey at the last minute if he and his family wanted to go. Tracy and Brandon were going to Europe on a school trip and the other guys had nothing to do, so Gene and Matt and Drew drove out on Sunday or Monday and joined us.
We had a really good time and the weather was great. I even skiied a double black diamond off of Peak 10 so I could get a geocache. It was pretty scary, deep snow, narrow chutes and very steep. I finally got to the tree the cache was at and searched for a long time before finding it tied to a branch. Then I realized I had forgotten a pen! I knew I'd never get back there, once was pushing me to the limit as it was. So, I took a picture, tried to scratch my name in the log with a twig, and logged it online anyway. As far as I'm concerned, it counts! That was the most challenging single cache I've ever done, terrain-wise anyway. Found another cache in the trees under the C-lift off of American. It took a lot of searching and digging in the snow, but I didn't give up (since I was alone) so finally got it. Here's a couple of links to my logs for these caches: Peak 10 cache American cache
Even though it was spring break it was not very crowded. It snowed a lot while we were there, but the back road was clear when we left, so we went back that way too.
