What a day!

What an incredible, amazing, awesome day! At Sundance. It was hard getting there. My Jeep is the absolute worst car I have ever driven in the snow. It's rear-wheel drive and it slips and slides and inches very slowly up a not very steep hill. It's bad. It's real bad. So we got to the turnoff to Sundance and it said 4 wheel drive or chains were required to go up. There wasn't a ton of snow yet, so we decided to take our chances. Argh! I kept sliding into the other lane. I would put the brakes on and then the Jeep couldn't get traction and we'd inch slowly up the hill and around the bend, hoping that no car would come up too fast behind us and we wouldn't slide into an oncoming car. Anybody who has been to Sundance knows that the road is narrow and curvy. We couldn't stop to put my chains on because there was no room on the road and I also didn't think we'd be able to even turn the car around and go back down the mountain. So some nice people pulled up beside us when we weren't getting anywhere. We were just stuck on the road. They really couldn't help us, but then a snow plow came! It didn't have enough room to get past, so I had to back up and to the side of the road. After a lot of spinning of the wheels, we got onto the plowed road and still had a rough time. We finally made it up and the lower parking lot was full. I stopped to talk to the parking attendent and couldn't get the darn Jeep to go again! The parking attendent and Greg (My cousin Paiges friend) had to push. We worked together and got the chains on the Jeep so we could drive up to the upper parking lot. After that--pure snowboarding bliss! The powder was amazing. What a good day! I really do love snowboarding. Especially on days like today. Carving down the powdery mountain was like floating. I stepped down in the snow and was up to my butt in powder. Glad I didn't get stuck! So it snowed all day and on the way home I went 10 miles an hour with bunches of cars behind me. It was so worth it!