Me and Britt went to Sunshine Village today. We left around 9:30am and were on the access road to the resort within the hour (we made damn good time!). Too bad the place was PACKED today. We didn’t make it to the ticket office until noon!

We rode up the gondola (pronounced gond-ole-a [that's the fun way to say it]). Then Britt went to strap into her brand new board and the boots didn’t fit in the bindings!! Turns out the salesman sold her men’s boots with women’s bindings.

So we headed to the retail shop where we ran into Stewart! He’s a manager (I forget for which department) at Sunshine. We met him on our Fall field trip back in November. We talked for a few minutes and he gave Britt a deal–half price for board/bindings rental. That was very nice of him. Thanks again Stewart.

So it was now 1pm and we were finally headed up the Strawberry chair lift. We stayed in this area all day because Britt is still a beginner. But she did great today! She stayed on her feet and I only caught her fall on her behind once. Of course I laughed at her for that one.

We’re going back to Sunshine on Saturday. This time I will take her up a bigger lift and get her a nice, long run on the cat track back to the bottom. We’ll have to work on her toe-edge carving too!

But overall, I had a great impression of Sunshine. There is ample terrain and I was drooling over a bunch of untouched powder that I saw. Saturday should be good!