Coolidge Clan - Day 4, ski day 2

Lola is on vacation so it is Arizona Adam resuming his blog. 

Day 4 ski day 2 started about the same as day 3 - up before 7 to leave the condo at 7:30. We arrived at Sunshine in good time getting parking in the first parking lot. 

Once everyone had their ski gear we loaded into the gondola and rode up the mountain. Here is a picture of the crew:

Sorry about the picture quality folks, it was cloudy out and snowy for most of the day. Here is a better photo courtesy of Lola:

Here's a picture of the ride up the angel chair:

Some of these photos are taken from our GoPro camera which can be mounted to my helmet and video taken while I snowboard. It works well except I fell today and sorta tumbled in the soft powder and popped the mount off my helmet. Oh well, some double sided tape will fix that when we get back. But I was able to get a few videos from yesterday and today. 

Here are a few more photos from the hill:

Lola setting the camera up. 

Lola and the black diamond skier (Big Bad Blair). 

Bailey eventually got up the courage and (pretty much) demanded a challenge of a bigger hill. So, Stu and Grandpa took her up the strawberry chair to come down an easy green run. From what we heard, she did well but got a little scared from some of the steeper part of the run and had a pretty decent wipeout which had her scared for any further runs. All in all she did well and just needs a little more practice. 

After skiing we came back to the boys, Charisse and mom/grandma at the condo. Mom was busy making supper (rice, soup and smoked turkey), Riley was busy playing and Charisse and Jasper were napping. 

After supper, the skiers/snowboarders needed some hot springs time so we packed up swimsuits and G and A, A and G, B and N and Bailey made their way back to Banff to the hot springs. It was quite busy but well needed an deserved. We came back loosened up - so much that Ashley is almost ready for more skiing. Here's a screenshot from the waterproof camera (camera #3 from this blog post, we have a total of 4 cameras, 2 iPhones, 1 iPad and 1 laptop...):

Well time to conclude this post. Ashley, Riley and Stuart are crashing, Jasper is wide awake and everyone else is slowly starting to wind down for the day. Tomorrow is a "maintenance day" so no skiing. Should be a good adventure day probably with some pool time at the rec centre in Canmore.