Ben also took the younger three night skiing at the beginning of March (I stayed home with Cat, who had a sprained ankle) and they really enjoyed that.
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| Taking advantage of an online school day to do a little skiing with my favorite 12-year-old. |
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| We thought we were smart to arrive early for skiing on President's Day, but the line for the lift was long before the lift even started! We waited in the car for a while to let the line die down, then just braved the crowds. Also, Ben switched to snowboarding mid-season. |
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| Cat had a ski day with a bunch of friends from school and they were eager to ski on the back mountain, and even tried out a couple of black diamond runs. Scary! |
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| Ben and I took the kids one Saturday morning while Cat stayed home to do homework. There was SO MUCH POWDER. |
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| On this fated day, I realized my phone had fallen out of my pocket while Jack and I were skiing when I attempted to take a picture of him going down a little blue run. Thankfully, someone turned it in just before we left, so we took our selfie in the car. |
Then we had our last winter day at Sundance on 3/11. Perhaps I should have learned from the bad luck of losing my phone, because it just got worse.
Eliza and Luke didn't have school so I took the two of them skiing for a couple of hours. I told them we'd drive through for lunch on the way home and challenged them (bribed?) to complete four runs to earn milkshakes. On the fourth run, I was behind the kids and fell and twisted my knee really bad.
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| Luke can't resist fresh snow. This didn't bother me too much until I remembered that people would need to put their hands on that railing and made him stop. |
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| Do you see the mountain peeking through the clouds? |
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| Just another beautiful day at Sundance... |
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| Enjoying the Outlaw trail. |
Since the kids were ahead of me, they didn't know that I'd fallen but just waited for several minutes until a Good Samaratin who had stopped to check on me went ahead to tell the kids what happened.
Another Good Samaritan stayed with me until ski patrol arrived, put my knee in a brace, and wrapped me up in a toboggan (like the picture below, except my head was covered too) and skied me down the mountain.
The kids were waiting with ski patrol at the base and one of the first things the ski patrol said was that I needed to make good on my milkshake promise. Well, at least my right knee was in tact so after filling out some forms and with considerable assistance from ski patrol we made it back to our car, got loaded up, and drove to Apollo Burger. Eliza helped me get into the house and we all enjoyed hot lunch, then Ben took me to the hospital where I got an x-ray, a brace, and a set of crutches.
The next week I got an MRI and found out that I have a complete tear in my ACL and a near-complete tear in my MCL. And did you know that while the MCL will repair itself, the ACL never will? So, I'll be having surgery next week to get fixed up.
I'm sad about the injury and the lengthy recovery it will require, but I'm thankful it's a fixable issue! I'm also sad that I know I might not want to ski anymore. I'll just have to make that decision next winter. The kids enjoyed skiing a bit more than last year, I'd say, but it still took a bit of coaxing to get them to go most of the time. Even considering this injury, though, I'm glad we tried skiing again this year and had a fun winter activity to get us outside and enjoy the beauty of the mountains together!
Between the injury and the warming weather, we decided to turn in our rental equipment a couple of weeks early. We're done for the year.
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