This is what it should be like: but (read on)

This is what it feels like all to often:

And then returning from the mountains, it feels like THIS:

Still,it is GREAT!

SKIING!

Daughter snowboards!

We usually visit all these places: Keystone, Vail, Arapahoe Basin, Breckenridge, and stay one block off the street pictured in Breckenridge.