SO MUCH SNOW. and so much skiing.
This winter, we don’t have to sit in hours of I-70 traffic to go skiing. In fact, we only have to drive 30 minutes! And there is never any traffic - hallelujah! So, I spend a crap-ton of money back in October and bought plethora of ski gear and decided this was the year I became a skier (officially!) and not just someone who goes once a year and is terrified all day and falls down 100 times and has no idea what I am doing.
Dare I say, I have gotten pretty good! It is great because winter can be so hard to stay active. I love exercising outdoors in the summer by hiking and biking and whatnot, but in the winter I feel like a poopy slug because all of the snow (and frigid temps) make those activities less fun/really difficult. Now I have found an activity that I literally daydream about all week long and spend as much time as possible on my weekend doing. Which is pretty neat and fulfilling.
Living if the mountains is the best ever and I seriously have no desire to return to Denver, like, ever.