I have a lonely ski...

[SkiNurse]

This Trip Report is amazing, but kinda like a lot of foreplay with no climax.
I was thinking there would be this amazing reunion of SkiNurse and her Luv

I'll get my popcorn ready for the continuing saga!

:ROTF::ROTF: No kidding...welcome to my life!

Christy, great pics! Have you thought about mountain biking back to it? Would that get you there faster so you'd have more search time? Then you could probably get it attached to your pack in a way to make it out again. Just a thought.

I have a friend that suggested also riding our bikes...but I'm not such a great biker. There is a mountainbike trail called, I think "Klosser Climb" or something. It would be the mountain bike trail for the ridge and Vial advertises that it is 1K verticle and 2.4 miles...or something like that...crazy.

But, Sleepytime road and other roads int he area are technically not owned by Vail, but the Forest Service. so, I would really like to figure out how to access those roads and drive back as far as I can!

Did I mention how lazy I truly can be???:ROTF:

 

[Robyn]

Hmmm, that would be interesting. I know I was able to drive the Forest Service roads near Winter Park a couple of weeks ago although I accessed outside of the resort, just ended right in the main village.

I'd really like to mountain bike one of the resorts this summer, maybe in August after my duathlon. If you haven't found the ski by then I'll get more info on it's location from you before I go. But, you should be able to bike the forest service roads as well which would be far less technical. Even if you road them down to the base of Lover's Leap and then hiked from there to do the search and recovery? I don't know, just thinking out loud here.

 

[snowski/swimmouse]

Great read, but definitely a cliffhanger (pun intended)!

We'll all be waiting for the sequel!

 

[LilaBear]

Me too, I'm loving the story development.

Your tenacity and determination are a lesson to us all. Especially as you prove to be "human" by planning to minimise physical exertion on this challenge.

 

[Kiragirl]

question: If you only have 1/2 of a pair of K2's, is that a K1 ?

 

[MaineSkiLady]

question: If you only have 1/2 of a pair of K2's, is that a K1 ?

Ha! Bonus points to anyone who knows what K1 is.

 

[SnowHot]

Ha! Bonus points to anyone who knows what K1 is.

A Go Kart Racing association?

 

[ski diva]

Ha! Bonus points to anyone who knows what K1 is.

Isn't it a mountain somewhere in Asia? Pakistan or somewhere like that?

 

[MaineSkiLady]

Multiple answers to this! I was thinking of the most common thing but turns out, per google, that it refers to many. Let's see if someone hits what I was thinking.

The Himalayan peak of fame is referred to as K2, BTW. Hmmm...

 

[Kiragirl]

It's the main lodge at Killington ! (VT)

 

[Jilly]

K1 - racing Kayak one paddler.
K2 - racing Kayak two paddlers
C1 - racing canoe one paddler
And so it goes.

 

[MaineSkiLady]

Hint: it's the designation given to something that is sold by the gallon (in the US, of course, liter elsewhere)

 

[SkiNurse]

question: If you only have 1/2 of a pair of K2's, is that a K1 ?

:ROTF:

 

[Kiragirl]

Hint: it's the designation given to something that is sold by the gallon (in the US, of course, liter elsewhere)

hmmm... K-wine? K-milk? K-gas?

 

[MaineSkiLady]

Hint 2: much is seen at airports

 

[Kiragirl]

scotch? kamikazes ?

 

[MaineSkiLady]

scotch? kamikazes ?

:ROTF::ROTF:

Hint #3: It is transported in tanker trucks, with the designation "This vehicle stops at all railroad crossings"

Come on, you guys. I'm getting really impatient now!

 

[Kiragirl]

kerosene !!!!

 

[snowski/swimmouse]

jet fuel?

 

[MaineSkiLady]

kerosene !!!!

FINALLY! I was running out of clues!

k-1 is the designation/grade given to clear kerosene (there are different grades)