Day 54 of Gratefulness: CJ

Today I took off for the mountains to hit slopes. It was a beautiful day, actually felt like a spring day but I decided that I needed to be out there and that I was going to enjoy the conditions anyway. I know, who complains about a spring day but when you want to ski you kind of look down on the warmer weather. My plan was to stay close to the bottom, as I just wanted to get in a ton of vertical feet since I am raising money per 1,000 vertical feet I ski. Once I got there though I decided to move up the mountain, as it was crowded. Spring break has started and people were piling in by the busloads from every part of the country. I headed toward the top and on one of the rides I met CJ. CJ is a local who has been around for so many years that he actually helped name some of the trails on the mountain. I told him what I was doing in terms of raising money and he took over as my personal tour guide. It was great- we went to places with great snow and places that were leg burners but I was grateful all the same. I even got in over 17,000 vertical feet towards my goal. Reaching 200,000 by the end of the season might just happen.