Friday Jan 18, 2019


We awoke to a complete white-out. The snow and wind was really blowing. When I took Benny out for his walk, I had a hard time seeing where we were going. Thank goodness, Benny knew. Needless to say, we didn’t go skiing today. There was about 6 inches of new snow on the ground and light snow continued for most of the day. If you have Aetna insurance , they have a pert that allows you to go to a gym on them.  So I made my way in the afternoon to the Silverthorne Recreation center. On the way back, the Dillon Dam road was closed as well as the Loveland Pass. This forced a great deal of traffic onto I70 to get around. There were many backups and 1 or 2 accidents. It was a complete mess.



In the evening we went to Arapahoe for dinner. We went around 5pm and the place was almost empty. No problem getting a place at the bar. The reason was because people coming up the mountain were stranded on the I70 highway which was closed both ways. We had dinner and the $2 PBR beers. The weather for tomorrow calls for snow showers and much colder weather.






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