Your Mountain

For anyone who likes to ski, I have one suggestion for you:

Go to the Rockies

Myself and two of my friends went on a week long trip to Denver over this past winter break. We started by taking a flight from Newark to Dallas/Fort Worth and from there we took a flight to Denver. Over the course of the week we looked around the city of Denver for possible apartments and tried to get an idea of the kind of jobs that were out there.  For one thing, the city itself is very clean, and it is very accessible from most any of the surrounding areas by bus or by their rail system. Walking around the city and meeting new people was a lot of fun, but the best part of the trip was the day before we left.

Since none of us wanted to pay extra to check our bags on the flight out to Denver we all made sure that we only packed things that would fit as a carry on. So when it comes to ski equipment you can guess that we didn't bring any, but we found a solution. We found out that one of the local ski mountain's called Loveland had a deal which was $99 which included a day's lift ticket, ski/boot rentals, ski pants/jacket, gloves, hats, and goggles.  I don't know about you, but I think that is an awesome deal considering that there are some mountains whose lift tickets cost more than that.  So we decided that we would go to Loveland, but we hit another problem.  The mountain was an hour away and we had no ride.  We contacted 8 car rental places with no luck at all.  I decided to call a 9th car rental place figuring we wouldn't be able to get a car just as the previous 8 had said. But, not only did they have cars that we could get that day, they had cars that we could get within the hour. So, we immediately reserved a car, and took the bus over to the rental place and left for the mountain.

We couldn't have asked for a better day to go skiing.  It was about 40 degrees, sunny, and there was no wind. We had a great time skiing, but that is not the reason I brought up skiing.  Not only did I love the skiing for the sport, but when you are near the top of a mountain in the Rockies you realize how beautiful nature is. I didn't have a camera to take pictures with, but I can tell you that the sight of being at the near top of a mountain in the Rockies will never leave my mind. The mountains were perfectly covered in snow. At one point later in the day the mountain had a beautiful orange hue to it since the sun was setting in the distance. The beauty of the earth around us is something we often don't take notice of. But, when you stand on a mountain like I did you will realize how beautiful the world around us is.

So my suggestion to you is to not necessarily go to the Rockies just because of this post.  My message to you is to find your own "mountain" in nature. Find a place in nature were you can go and really appreciate the world around us. Not the world that we have built for ourselves, but the world that God created for us. Take time off from your busy life, and go appreciate the natural beauty of the world. And even though groups are fun for outdoor trips, I encourage you to go in a group of no more than 3 people. This way you will have more of a personal experience with nature. We work so hard in our daily lives. We try so hard to please family, friends, bosses, and other people throughout our lives that we forget about ourselves.

With that:  Go take time for yourself once in a while and find Your Mountain.