food

As long time backcountry skiers my wife and I have always been excited to share the exploration and fun of back country skiing with our children. We got just that chance recently with a late season blast of snow and a hut trip we’d planned with our friends. Check out one of our best yet ski adventures.

For those of you who didn’t track this last year, Woody’s is a bold venture to open a quality restaurant up at the Western Colorado trailhead town of Marble. It’s just like the road end gasthauses in Austria, only the food is a bit different. Everyone, please support Woody! The chili special today was only six bucks — worth twice that — and would have cost three times that in Aspen. Lisa had the chili, I had the brisket with potato salad and sweet tea.

Silvretta Traverse, Switzerland and Austria. We had down to the Tuoi Hut for lunch, then over Vermuntpass to Weisbadener (Wiessbadner) hut for a few nights stay.

After yesterday’s partly cloudy skies, and thus cutting the last of the day’s goals, we, of course, picked roast bluebird off the Day 4 fantasy menu. And yes, next morning our dreams became reality: perfect azure skies, hundreds of square…