I'm off this morning for a day of skiing at Breckenridge, about 45 minutes east of here. I've always wanted to ski at Breck. In fact, when I originally came out to Colorado I wanted to work there and was somewhat disappointed when I landed a job at Vail.

According to the resorts web site, there's two new inches of snow of the ground with more to come today. Half the mountain is closed, which is bummer, but there are still 15 of 27 lifts operating and since I only paid 15 bucks for a lift ticket, that's something I can live with.

Skiing a resort for the first time is something like visiting a country for the first or doing anything interesting for the first time for that matter. Everything is new. Lifts, runs, vistas, people, culture. All new and different. I'm really looking forward to getting there.