Snowmobiling Mission Complete

3:45am wakeup call! Need to hit the road by 5am…which means 5:30 am Michelle time.

Winterpark is only 82 miles from home. Much better than going from the bay area to Tahoe!

We figured that it would take at least 2 1/2 hours to get there since a lot of people going skiing over the Christmas holidays.

It turned out that a lot of people decided to sleep in so it actually only took 2 hours to get to Winterpark. This included a stop at Starbucks for caffeine.

Since we didn’t actually have to arrive until 8am, we had time for a recon downtown and look for a place to eat lunch. We decided to eat at Smokin’ Moe’s. As the name implies, this is a BBQ joint. We actually ate here a couple of years ago during our first snow mobile trip. Good food. A little pricey but what do you expect in a tourist town?

There wasn’t a lot of people so we were able to check in, grab a helmet and insulated suite. We already had goggles, scarf and baklava. We bought some kick ass gloves at Cabella’s a couple of weeks ago especially for this trip.

After we signed the damage waivers and listened to the safety orientation, we were ready to mount our sleds.

We decided to go up to Corona Bowl first to get an overview of the valley below. Damn it was fricken’ cold up there. We need to get liners for our gloves. The snowmobiles have heated handle bars but our fingertips were getting frozen. We decided to make the Corona Bowl a short trip and explore other other regions of the area. At least it will be warmer below.

The rest of the day we rode around the rest of the park. I had my Go Pro Hero camera attached to my sled but after we were done for the day, I noticed that the camera fell off. The mount was still attached but the camera is gone. Unfortunately, all of the other pictures are on the Go Pro so I have not other pictures to offer but this one:

It was still a great trip. We will be going again this winter but I think we will be doing the afternoon run.

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