Breckenridge - Day 5

Wednesday, December 29, 2010:

Today was our final day of this great ski trip. During so much of this trip, we have been blessed with great weather. Today, however, the weather did not cooperate. It was an overcast day and it was cold. It was also windy and there was snow falling at the top of the mountain, which caused us to change some of our plans. We had been thinking that we would try one of the highest (expert) areas of Peak 9 today, and Chad and Chris were hoping to try one of the bowls, but the highest lifts on the mountain were closed because of the high winds and low visibility.

So we contented ourselves with traversing the different peaks and revisiting some of the trails we had enjoyed most earlier in the week. This included one of the terrain parks where Chad and Chris tried out some of the jumps. We were able to cover a lot of terrain, but we were definitely slowed down today by the crowds. As the New Year's Eve weekend approached, the resort was getting more and more crowded. We found ourselves waiting in several long lift lines today.

Given the crowds and the cold, windy conditions, we decided to ski through the lunch hour but call it a day in the early afternoon. It was a good last day, but definitely not the best skiing day this week.

On this our last day in Breckenridge, we enjoyed a late lunch at the Breckenridge Brewery and a great dinner at a restaurant called Embers. Both of these restaurants had been recommended by a friend, and the recommendations were excellent ones. We ended our vacation having been very well fed.