Reagan Fuller

Snowy Shoes

Reagan posing by our new Leadville fireplace.

Downtown was quite snowy!

I talked everyone in to a snowshoe outing at Turquoise Lake. Didn’t have much expectation given the variety of ages. If we all actually get geared up and walk a 1/2 mile, its a win. Ready?

Heading out. Wyatt taking a break already!

Had the road all to ourselves on the way to Matchless. Not much tracked so far in the new snow.

Kim brought up the rear. Reagan was melting down already. These shoes are heavy on my feet, she said.

Reagan was finally over her fit and started having fun.

Leadville Ice Skating

On Sunday, the kids decided they wanted to go ice skating. This time Kayla and Kim joined us. Previously, they were in the middle of nap time and didn’t join our snowy adventure on the sledding hill. Leadville has a nice ice skating park at the west end of 5th street. Its a couple bucks and you can rent skates. Everybody got out and was on the ice and having fun. Reagan found her favorite way to safely travel on the ice!

Live action!

Leadville Sledding

Back in Leadville for the long holiday weekend. I gave the kids their choice of about a dozen snowy activities for Saturday. The winner was SLEDDING! So we grabbed our two sleds and headed over to Dutch Henry Hill about 1.5 miles from home. This hill is the start of the Leadville 50 mile trail run that I did in 2008. The weather was nice and there weren’t too many people there. The hill is free to sledding and its open from dusk to dawn. You can also rent snow sledding tubes for $5 and hour.

The tough part of sledding in Leadville: You have to drag your tube up this hill at 10,000 feet. I was getting a workout but the kids never complained. I expected Reagan to give up but she kept going up and down the hill. I guess the payoff was worth it.

Either a break or a snow angel…or both.

A view towards town.

Ready to ride!

Let’s go. Push us!

There is plenty of snow to snack on out here.

Reagan liked this tube so much that I ordered one to save myself the hassle of renting by the hour. Hope to have it by next time.

Your host.

Some video of the runs!

A great day of sledding. The runs seemed like they needed more snow but the packed down stuff was fast! We went back a few days later during a snowstorm and the sledding wasn’t good. Too much powder. The kids couldn’t even get 1/2 way down the hill. Surely, the locals will get it packed down over the next few days so we can get back at it!

The Cabin Rocks

This past weekend, we made our first 2011 visit back to Leadville. The title of this post reflects what I saw written at the top of Sydney’s notebook/journal for her weekend in Leadville. Glad everyone is enjoying it so far. Its been a lot of work but Kim and I are trying to cram as much in each weekend as we can so that its ready to roll and feel like home ASAP. Pretty much there now but still could spend many weekends working on random things. But I have tried not to lose sight of why we go there….to relax and have some fun! So how about a bit on that.

“These make my feet feel funny”, she said. Duh! You have big metal shoes strapped to your boots, kid. However, I got her mind off of that and she started to have some fun in them.

That didn’t last long. Kayla found a new puller!

Let’s go break some trail!

Hey, Snow Sisters!

Checking in with Grandma.

Check out my bed! Complete with my new quilt from Nana.

Back again soon!