Journals of June Creek: Alaska to Breck, Without a Wreck!

Whew, I'm back from Colorado! Spent most of my trip in sunny Breckenridge, stoners, er, I mean, skiers delight!

The Rocky Mountains were rather lovely, but still couldn't hold a candle to the Alaska Range, let alone Healy. I guess it just seemed weird to have dirty, slushy snow everywhere in full on winter...

But oh... the sun...

Breckenridge, CO average days of sunshine: 300
Healy, AK average days of sunshine: 156

Hello sun!

There was a decent amount of "powder" while I was there, that mixed with the sun to make for some fun. No down hill skiing for me, but I tried some cross country skiing with Walt for the first time with mixed results...

Heck ya, I got this...

Oh, okay, downhill...

Pretty much pro...

Oh that's a lovely vista... wait a second...

Ya, I spent some time on the ground, however I surprised myself with how much time I was vertical. Cha, brah.

Time was not only spent on the ground, but also playing PINBALL! Colorado is pretty much a mecca of pinball. It's just a matter of finding it.

Breckenridge it's self wasn't too shabby with selections. There was even a smoothly functioning Funhouse with light up flipper buttons... hello Rudy!

The pinball highlight was Fort Collins, which had three previously unseen games for me. Rescue 911 with a magnetic helicopter; Safecracker, which uses time instead of number of balls to dictate game play...

and Blackhole, with it's basement playfield...

Also... sidewalk pianos and a perfect parallel park (take THAT 2009 Ruhr University Bochum study)...

You didn't think I'd give up PUZZLES whilst away did you??? We had to MacGyver a puzzling surface, but it got DONE. Thank you duct tape and North Side Pizza...

Supposedly there are MOOSE in Breckenridge. No, I didn't see any. The only "wild" life I saw was "Oscar" the neighborhood fox eating leftovers from the back porch...