{"id":1435,"date":"2010-10-23T13:57:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T19:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2010-10-23T13:57:35","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T19:57:35","slug":"watching-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/watching-waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching, waiting&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fall seems to be going by so slowly.  I&#8217;ve been riding my bike religiously since mid-June.  That&#8217;s four months on two wheels with only a couple of days of skiing in mid-June and July.  I&#8217;ll be honest- I used to love the bike more than I do now.  I don&#8217;t love it like I once did.  Four months on two wheels is plenty and it&#8217;s time to move on.  It&#8217;s time to ski!  <\/p>\n<p>We woke this morning up to our first real accumulation of snow on the ground here in Crested Butte.  While it won&#8217;t stick around here in town, it will be contributing to our base up higher.  I was happy to see the snow, but sad to see it melting away as I type this very blog.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll go ahead and say it.  I&#8217;m antsy.  Full of anticipation.  I&#8217;m tired of the bike.  I did my <a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/brittanysblog\/2010\/10\/tr-cb-classic-100-miles-of-moxie\/\">100-mile bike race<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/brittanysblog\/2010\/10\/tr-pearl-pass-bike-tour-11-sept-2010\/\">rode to Aspen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/brittanysblog\/2010\/10\/tr-from-aspen-to-cb-taylor-star-passes-12-sept-2010\/\">back<\/a>&#8211; my two big goals for the summer.  I even spent two weekends riding in <a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/brittanysblog\/2010\/10\/tr-rabbit-valley-western-rim-10-oct-2010\/\">Fruita<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/butterknife-trail-10-17-10\/\">Grand Junction<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/the-whole-enchilada-moab-utah-10-16-10\/\">Moab<\/a>. Now I&#8217;m ready to move on to bigger and better things.   I&#8217;m ready for snow.  If I can&#8217;t be downhill skiing I at least want to be cross-country skiing.  I want to be doing something other than riding my bike.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m excited to say that skiing can and will happen soon.  <a href=\"http:\/\/view.exacttarget.com\/?j=fe521774726d077c7c1d&#038;m=fef61c737d6600&#038;ls=fdf0117777640774721d7276&#038;l=fe6415737161007d7613&#038;s=fdfc15727d67057f73107273&#038;jb=ffcf14&#038;ju=fe26167977600675731272\">Loveland ski area<\/a> will be opening tomorrow, two day&#8217;s after Maine&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundayriver.com\/TheMountain\/MountainReport\/index.html\">Sunday River<\/a>.  (Wow, is the East Coast set up for another big winter?)  While I won&#8217;t be at the Luv tomorrow, I&#8217;ll surely be there next weekend.  And I&#8217;ll be all the happier to be on two planks instead of two wheels.  Pray for snow!  <\/p>\n<p>Some shots from the Loveland web cam:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/?action=view&#038;current=LL1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/LL1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/?action=view&#038;current=LL2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/LL2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall seems to be going by so slowly. I&#8217;ve been riding my bike religiously since mid-June. That&#8217;s four months on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-random-thoughts","category-recent-events-news","category-resort-skiing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1436,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions\/1436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}