Ostrander Ski Hut 19.- 21. 1. 2013

Ostrander ski hut is quite popular hut in Yosemite. To be able to stay in it, one has to win a lottery. We were quite lucky and won stay over the long MLK weekend. There are a few trails to get there, but all of them quite strenuous. Eight of us (Jeannette, Chris, Josh, Joe, Grant, Alan, Eric and I) started at 9 am on Saturday morning, most of us owned or rented skis, and for some people it was quite challenging to go about 10 miles on them with heavy backpack. Only Grant went back for snowshoes though. We arrived between 4 - 5 pm, quite exhausted. The next day we took it easy, Jeannette and Josh stayed at the hut, the rest of us went for short trips around. The capacity of the hut is about 25 people so we shared it with other groups and it the evening we played games, read books or just socialized. On Monday we left around 9 am, the way back was easier, since we did more downhill then the first day.
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Lyzarska chata Ostrander je pomerne popularni chata v Yosemitech. Aby clovek dostal reservaci, musi vyhrat loterii. My jsme meli to stesti, ze jsme vyhrali reservaci na prodlouzeny vikend Martina Luthera Kinga. K chate vede nekolik cest, ale vsechny jsou pomerne narocne. Osm nas (Jeannette, Chris, Josh, Joe, Grant, Alan, Eric and ja) vyrazilo v sobotu v 9 rano, vetsina z nas mela nebo si pujcila lyze. Pro nektere lidi to bylo docela narocne zdolat 16 km na lyzich s tezkym batohem. Jen Grant se ale vratil pro sneznice. Na chatu jsme prisli mezi 4 a 5 odpoledne, docela vycerpani. Nasledujici den jsme meli odpocinkovy, Jeannette a Josh zustali na chate, zbytek nas vyrazilo na kratke vylety v okoli chaty. Kapacita chaty je asi 25 lidi a tak jsme ji zdileli s dalsimi skupinami a vecer jsme hrali hry, cetli knizky a nebo si jen tak povidali. V pondeli jsme vyrazili zpet kolem 9 hodiny, cesta zpet byla jednodusi, jelikoz jsme sli vice zkopce nez prvni den.
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Christmas - Colorado - New Mexico 22.12. 2012 - 2.1. 2013

This year Christmas I went with Eric to Colorado to celebrate the holidays with his family near Denver. While we were in Evergreen we went for a few walks around snowy forest, tried ice skating on a lake, drove to Denver to see the decorated downtown, visited botanic garden and walk the trail of lights, ate a lot of good food and had really good time.
For the second part of our holiday we rented a car and drove to Los Alamos in New Mexico where Eric used live and work. We met there with Eric's friend from high school. We stopped at Wolf Creek for one day skiing on our way. The three days in Los Alamos we spent by visiting Santa Fe, Bandelier National Monument, science museum (Los Alamos was established to develop nuclear weapon during WWII), met with Eric's old friends and went for short hike. Unfortunately the snow conditions weren't great so we didn't use our snowshoes that we brought from Ca. On New Year's day we drove back to Colorado and then flew back to San Francisco. 
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Tento rok jsem jela oslavit Vanoce s Ericem a jeho rodinou do Colorada. Cas straveny v Evergreenu jsme stravili prochazkami zasnezenym lesem, bruslenim na jezere, zajeli jsme si do Denvru podivat se na vanocni vyzdobu, navstivili jsme botanickou zahradu a prosli se po ceste svetel, jedli jsme vyborna jidla a vubec jsme se meli velice dobre.
Na druhou cast nasi dovolene jsme si pujcili auto a jeli do Los Alamos v Novem Mexicu, kde Eric drive bydlel a pracoval. Tam jsme se potkali s Ericovym kamaradem ze stredni skoly. Po ceste jsme se zastavili na jeden den lyzovani na Wolf Creeku. Tri dny v Los Alamos jsme stravili navstevou Santa Fe, Bandelier National monumentu, muzea vede (Los Alamos bylo zalozeno pro vyrobeni jaderne bomby za druhe svetove valky), potkali se s Ericovymi znamymi a zasli si na kratkou vychazku. Bohuzel snehove podminky nebyly idealni a tak jsme ani nevyuzily sneznice, ktere jsme privezli z Kalifornie. Na Novy rok jsme jeli zpet do Colorada a odtud jsme leteli zpet do San Francisca.

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