Women's Yurt Trip

Two quick cute you tube videos of Brook and Lucy chopping wood:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkgIDeMg8Lc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xXBDbeqSks

I had a superb three day yurt trip with my good friends Lucy and Nancy (who is blind) in the mountains of Utah. After ski for light was over the three of crammed into my Forrester with all of our stuff and waved good bye to Provo and headed for our next adventure.

We landed in Park City in the afternoon where Mary Lou (a fellow Ski For Light guide) our host for the evening greeted us. With next to no sleep from the entire week of Ski For Light we scrapped up some energy to grocery shop for our trip, pack our bags and cook a lovely meal together. We slept soundly and after a quick breakfast headed towards Wyoming for our adventure.

We could not have asked for better weather as we pulled into the trail head parking lot. With enthusiasm we jumped out of the car, threw on our packs, took a quick photo and off we went into the woods.

It only took us an enjoable 1 hour ski in to our yurt. On our way in we saw 4 fellow ski for light friends skiing to their yurt. After quickly getting settled in we had time for an afternoon ski and then made the most delicious dinner!

Apparently it was a VERY cold night and us ladies made a huge error. We only stoked the fire at 12:00am and by the time 6:00am rolled around the coals were as cold as ice and our visible breathe decorated the air. We stood around the fire at 6:00am unable to go back to sleep or ski. It took me about 30 minutes of convincing to head outside to take care of business in the outhouse.

Many hours later once we warmed up and filled our bellies with some comforting breakfast we put in a full day of skiing. Lucy and I had tons of fun chopping wood and kindling when we got back and worked up an appetite for a Mexican dinner delight! I am proud that we learned from our mistake from the night previous. Since Nancy is blind she was unable to comfortably stoke the fire so she had to task of setting her alarm for every two hours and waking up in shifts Lucy and I to stoke the fire. It was a perfect system and on our last morning we woke up to a toasty warm yurt.

After our last enjoyable ski day we packed our things, cleaned the yurt and skied back to the car.

We headed to Salt Lake City and stayed with a generous couchsurfing host and in the morning we gave our hugs good byes as Nancy flew to Bend, Oregon and Lucy to Houghton, MI.