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Today we decided to hit the slopes again – but not before catching our dose of yet another TV marathon; this time it was Law & Order: SVU. Although we woke up at the same time as every other day, we didn’t hit the slopes until 11am again because of the back-to-back episodes in nearly every room of the condo. Although Ed had hit the slopes a little earlier, Pip and I finally made our way outside into the yet again perfect weather.

Ed on the slopes

We headed up the Centennial, as was our usual starting ride (probably because it was the first lift we came across that took us anywhere useful), and then headed to the very top of the mountain. Unfortunately we didn’t explore any new territory, but instead revisited some old favourites which we had come to know over the past few days here at this resort. We skied a few more runs, messing around with the helmet cam, before calling it quits for lunch. Because we had been making it out relatively late onto the slopes, lunch seemed to come far too quickly.

The Spruce Saddle was the lunch choice again, and we indulged on hot dogs, pizza and cheeseburgers (I’ll let you guess who had what) – healthy, as always, I know. We spent a little time indoors, studying the map to work out if we could get to the mountains of powder we could see over a certain ridge, before heading back out towards the Stawberry Park area – somewhere we had been before but not yet spent a whole lot of time. We did a few runs here, but found it very icy – in fact, the whole mountain was starting to get a little bald, in desperate need of new snow – so we soon headed towards the Bachelor Gulch area.

Pip good to go

As the day was getting late, we didn’t stay around Bachelor Gulch very long, but it was long enough to do a few runs and try our a bit of new terrain – unfortunately, as above, big sections were closed as they had turned brown. At 3pm we began our 5km+ journey back towards the village via the Larkspur area, and instead of skiing straight back to the hotel as we had done every other day, we stopped to pick up a baguette to have with dinner (we were eating in tonight). While picking up the baguette itself wasn’t a particularly funny thing, the task of getting it home was a little more humorous.

I had the task of carrying the bread stick home, and couldn’t decide whether to stick it inside my jacket or just carry it down with me – by down of course I mean after we had been up the Buckaroo Gondola (a first for that too). We made the relatively short run back to the hotel with no issues, and relaxed for a while before heading to the hot tub. Ed stayed to watch the stock market, and when we returned he was still in the same position as we had left him.

Which way did we come?

At 7:30pm we began cooking dinner – pasta was the meal of choice tonight – and once prepared, was enjoyed by all. By the time we had cleared up dinner, it was well and truly time for more relaxing; Pip decided to do this by starting to pack her bags, just slightly early, while I watched some TV and Ed yodelled down the Skype line. We eventually switched back to the Law & Order:SVU marathon that had begun the day, and watched until we fell asleep.

Day after day the weather has been perfect here at Beaver Creek, but unfortunately this is certainly taking its toll on the snow conditions. While we love the blue skies, all we can hope for is a little snow overnight (much better than during the day) – but so close to the end of our adventure, it probably isn’t going to make a world of difference.

Looking forward to seeing everyone back home! Hope the heat wave has disappeared in preparation of our arrival in a few days time!

Check out the photos from today here, or have a look at the photo mash-up below instead!