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Bean Trip To Lake City, CO

We embarked on the first Bean trip vacation of 2026 to an area that neither Jen nor I had visited before – Lake City, CO. Lake City is located on the other side of the mountain passes from Ouray, Telluride, and Silverton – the town where Cam and Mady got married last year.

I did a little research on the Lake City area after we got lost going to last year’s wedding (took an early turn off from Blue Mesa Reservoir – damn you GPS master). It was a happy mistake as both Jen and I couldn’t get over how beautiful it was at the time. Wasn’t until we reached the general story in Lake City that we discovered we were on the wrong side of the mountain to make it to Silverton – whoops. Another hour back to highway 50 to make the correct turn.

The wrong turn turned out to be providence. What a wonderful trip. Beautiful scenery, wildflowers, wildlife and the wildfire stayed on the other side of those same mountains.

If you get a chance, I highly recommend a visit to the area. I love living in Colorado. It is a privilege many do not appreciate.

All the red dots are some of the places we were able to visit. click on the map to enlarge.

McKee-Green Visit

The Mahoneys had fun hosting the Mckee-Greens for a pre-Christmas visit. Other than some of the folks feeling under the weather, we all had a good time either skiing or eating, or both.

Jenna brought a few games and ignited the competitive sprit in all of us. Who knew there were so many creative writers in the group – some more brief than others. My favorite answer “poop control”.

In addition to games, there was skiing/snowboarding, some serious snow tubing in Frisco and one quality day of just exploring the town of Breckenridge.

Colorado Mountain Vacation

Took a trip through the Colorado mountains this week – north to south. Much fun. Here is a little video I put together while in Ridgeway. Thanks Rick and Linds, we had a blast.

Visits and Birthdays

April 11, 2011:

A visit from the Kurths, a visit from Granny and Papa and Connor’s birthday – a busy couple of months since I last posted. Allan, Andrew and Alex made it out to ski for a few days this spring and we all had a good time. The conditions were variable to say the least but we all had fun skiing with each other. We were even able to make it down the Whale’s Tail in a near white out. The nicest day, of course, came on the day the Kurths left. Some video of the day is here.

Granny and Papa cam out for a short visit with the family and we all had a good time as well. We had a chance to see a lacrosse game, do some shopping, and play a rousing game of poker. Beware Cam. He is a shark. He was down to almost nothing and ended up cleaning us all out in the end.

Finally, Con had a good birthday. He had one of his buddies over for a night of movies and horsing around and was able to sample a couple of birthday cakes. With some of the money he received, he was very pleased with himself over the purchase of a new longboard and helmet… smiles from ear to ear.

Lacrosse season has started with a vengeance. Looking forward to some fast action from the Mahoneys.

Birthday Trip

February 10, 2011:

The ski trip celebrating Bo’s birthday was fun. All of the old farts were able to make it out to both Vail and Beaver Creek. Kevin was sick for the first day and managed to give his sickness to me by coughing all over me during a lunch. Thankfully, I’m on the mend now. The entire 3 days were freezing cold. We topped out at about -1 for the first 2 days with the highlight being told at the top of the first lift on the first day in Beaver creek, “welcome to the top, we are looking at a balmy -14 degrees.” The cold only meant we had to stop a few extra times to warm up. We were graced with some fresh snow that made for some fun glade skiing. And yes, I did make it down the Birds of Prey (video here).

Weekend Trip

January 28, 2011:

Headed back up to Breckenridge and then Beaver Creek to ski and celebrate Bo’s birthday. I plan to rock the Birds of Prey. All of my little brothers seem to have problems keeping up with me, especially as they get older… ha.

Breck is hosting the annual International Snow Sculpture Championships this weekend and we should get a chance to see some of the creations (here are some pictures from two years ago). I’m looking forward to practicing some more with the helmet cam to capture all of the little shavers skiing. I think the next skill I need to work on is my video editing. I’m still a little sketchy on putting good clips together for a compelling mini-movie, but I’m working on it.