Happy Holidays

Hope everyone had a great holiday season! We have been out and about, never a dull moment around here! Tiff and I jetted off to Italy in early December to visit one of Tiffanie's best friends near Venice. It was a whirlwind tour from Venice, to Aviano, to watching Shelley's husband Greg taxi and takeoff (he is an F-16 pilot in the Air Force), to Cortina, and back. After nearly a week of missing our train connections, we were home, just in time for me to head out to Cleveland to visit my boys Davis and Chad, and to hit-up Ray's Indoor Mountain Bike Park. Pretty cool concept, lots of fun, can't wait for Boulder Indoor Cycling to open now! Davis's Christmas party was off the hook, and I am pretty sure I had as much fun as a Boulderite could possibly have in the Cleve! Since then, it was down to Pueblo, CO to visit the parents for the holidays, then a quick jaunt down to Crested Butte to take advantage of the 50" of snow they received last week! Luckily, Tiff and I were able to catch up with JB, Wick, and Jari from Team Salomon/Crested Butte, and had fun skiing with Wick and JB. After trying out Wick's Rando race kit, I think I am hooked, too bad I can't even afford a pair of race bindings! Hopefully I will have out the "Heavy Metal" this year and can do some COSMIC (Colorado Ski Mountaineering Cup) races, albeit much slower than Wick, JB and the boys on their race gear!

Cheers and Happy Holidays. Still looking for New Years plans.

(Pictures are Brooks and Tiff in Cortina, Italy; Skinning up Crested Butte mountain at dusk on Wick's "crack" Ultralight race gear. )

-Brooks