Battle Abbey

Best things about a week at the Abbey.

Great to get away for a week. To have nothing to do before breakfast but stretch. Nothing to hurry back for but afternoon tea. And now that they have a new two-holer outhouse, the biggest worry is how much new snow we’ll have in the morning. Well, and Timmy got caught up in a small (1.5) avalanche on one uptrack. Swim, Timmy-Three-Tubes, swim!

Note fracture line above and Tim’s little noggin’ sticking out of snow on left.

I could ski. Due to good conditions, patient partners and my unexplained ability to “point ‘em down”, I skied a number of lines I hadn’t before. Gmoser Pitch, Never Never Basin, Kitchen Envy and a few others were nice highlights.

The butt-clenching entry to Kitchen Envy.

Kitchen Envy, the aftermath.

The ice cave. 1,000-year-old ice for 10-year-old whiskey.

Me buds. Great to spend some quality time with the homies. Rip it up!

Um, let me think…