The Undiscovered Country

Just got back from a vacation to Vail and Beaver Creek, Colorado with my wife.  While we were there, we took some snowboarding lessons and also took an unguided snowmobile trip.  Here are a few pics -

Snowmobiling pics - these are about 7 miles out into the middle of nowhere...truly, the undiscovered country

Finally, when we got done, we had to get to Colorado Springs, which is south of Denver.  Instead of backtracking to Denver on the interstate, we thought we would be adventurous and go over the mountains straight to the city.  However, what we didnt know was that there was a major snowstorm on the mountain - we were driving in our little rented Kia Optima in a 4inch snow/hour storm.  Some of the turns were scary - we could probably only see 25 yards ahead of us...close to a 'white out' situation.  Here are a couple pics from our car once we got OUT of the majority of the storm.