This February break we started by going to Bear Valley to try our new cross country skis. The first day we spent going around groomed trail in the cross country complex, nothing too exciting, but good for practice. Eric's binding broke at the furthest place from the trailhead, but since he wasn't too keen on skiing there anyway, he was quite happy that he had an excuse to walk :). The second day we went snowshoeing to Mt. Reba. It was snowing overnight, everything got covered, and we had nice quiet hike. After couple of miles and lunch, we decided to go back and give our skis a second try (Eric managed to fix his binding). We skied to Alpine lake and around it, returning back to the car close to the sunset. Even though we had one more night at our hotel, we decided to drive back home.
During the week, I spent some time doing errands, but most importantly we started to make our patio a little bit nicer by planting some plants and preparing to plant a few vegetables.
The second weekend we went to Benson hut. This was the last hut that we haven't visited (from 4 Sierra club huts) and we heard that it is the most difficult to reach. Our plan was to take a lift to the top of Sugar bowl ski area, but we learned that without skis or a snowboard we can't get on the lift. So we had to hike it up. Which wouldn't be that bad, but we also had to pay $25 for being at the area! The same price as we would pay for taking a lift! After we managed to get on the ridge, it was a relatively easy hike to the cabin. One other person was already in the cabin, but otherwise we had the place to ourselves. In the morning we enjoyed the views from the cabin for little bit longer. Most of us agreed that this cabin had the best location and we would like to come back. Then we started our way back, which was quite easy and we were by the cars in almost no time. On our way back, Eric and I stopped in Concord at the Czech restaurant for dinner.
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Tyto unorove prazdniny zacali vyletem do Bear Valley, abychom vyzkouseli nase nove bezky. Prvni den jsem stravili lyzovanim v arealu s upravenymi tratemi, nic moc vzrusujiciho, ale dobre na procvicovani. Ericovo vazani se rozlomilo na nejvzdalenejsim miste od auta, ale jelikoz ho lyzovani tady az tak moc nebavilo, tak byl docela rad, ze ma duvod k tomu, aby lyze nesl. :) Druhy den jsme sli na sneznicich k hore Reba. Pres noc snezilo, vsechno bylo pod snehem a tak jsme meli pekny tichy vyslap. Po par kilometrech a obedu jsme se rozhodli jit zpet a dat druhou sanci nasim bezkam (Ericovi se podarilo vazani spravit). Jeli jsme k jezeru Alpine a kolem nej a k autu jsme se vratili k zapadu slunce. I kdyz jsme meli zaplacenou jeste jednu noc v hotelu, rozhodli jsme se jet domu.
Behem tydne jsem stravila cas delanim ruznych domacich praci, ale hlavne jsme zacali si upravovat nas dvorek, aby vypadal o neco pekneji a abychom mohli zasadit nejakou zeleninu.
Druhy vikend jsme jeli na chatu Benson. Tato chata byla posledni, ve ktere jsme nebyli (ze 4 Sierra club chat) a slyseli jsme, ze ma nejtezsi pristupovou cestu. Nas plan byl, ze se vyvezemem lanovkou na kopec arealu Sugar bowl, ale dozvedeli jsem se, ze bez lyzi a nebo snowbordu nemuzememe na lanovku. Tak jsme kopec museli vyslapat. To by nebylo az tak hrozne, ale my jsme taky museli zaplatit $25 jen za to, ze jsme byli v arealu! Ty same penize jako bychom platili za lanovku! Pote co jsme se vyskrabali na hreben to byla relativne jednoducha cesta k chate. Jeden dalsi kluk byl uz v chate, ale jinak jsme meli chatu celou pro sebe. Rano jsme si jeste uzili vyhledy z chaty a vetsina nas souhlasila s tim, ze tato chata ma nejlepsi umisteni a ze bychom se radi vratili zpet. Pote jsme zacali nasi cestu zpatky, coz bylo docela jednoduche a u aut jsme byli velice brzy. Po ceste zpet jsme se s Ericem zastavili v Concordu v Ceske restauraci na veceri.
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