....Eldora Mountain is my favorite place to play in the snow.  Over the last 4 years I've spent hours and hours on the mountain as part of the disabled ski program.  It's a friendly, family oriented place, with great energy and unfortunately somedays have really high, nasty winds.  But I love the place.  I planned on blogging about my experiences yesterday at Eldo....how the snow was great, the temps were warm, and how my brand new boots helped me ski even better.  

Instead I'm shocked and saddened by a shooting at the resort.  Apparently an employee shot and killed the General Manager (in a random incident according to the news) and the sped off.  He was chased by a Sheriff who was en-route to the resort after the 911 call came in....the employee pulled his car off the road and shot at the Sheriff, who returned fire and killed the man.   

It's just so sad, and so shocking.  I wonder if the man who did the killing was someone I spoke to yesterday?  What went on in his head that sparked such an incident?  How do these things happen??? And, my heart and prayers go out the the GM's family, and all those at those employees who witnessed this event and are surely traumatized.  

In honor of this, I'm posting some pictures of my day yesterday, when all was good at the mountain, so you can see what a truly magical and beautiful place this is.... 

 (View from La Belle run into the town on Nederland and way way past on to the plains)

(Me and my snowboard pal at the top of Challenger lift - check out that view behind us!)

 (Me cruising down a run in the red jacket)