Michigan in Winter
By Sandy Lambrecht
This is a “late” trip article. The trip went out last quarter and didn’t get written about and seeing how it was such a good trip, we thought we’d get it in this issue.
The trip was a downhill skiing trip in Upper Michigan with a cultural study twist to it, for the week of February 22-27.
The people who went were (staff) Randy Nelson, (students) Chris Dudley, Andy Lippler, Eric Freeman, Toot Rogney, Doug Snyder, Sue Vold, Sue Ruffenach, Liz Schmid and I.
We met on Sunday at Perkins about 6:30 am. We ate breakfast, loaded up and left. There were two vehicles for the ten of us, which was great. Randy drove his van and Sue Ruffenach drove Woody’s car up. (Thanks Scott.)
It was a long drive but the scenery was beautiful, snowing like crazy, and Liz kept us entertained with her Playgirl.
When we got to our condo, everybody got their stuff unpacked. Then we went and checked out the lodge, swimming, sauna, pool, pinball, tunes, etc.
The next day we went to Powderhorn. Everybody was really psyched. We all skiied at different “levels of perfection”, so we were scattered from bunny hills to moguls. It was great.
The third day the guys went to Indianhead and we stayed back. The fourth day we all went to Indianhead. By far they were the steepest, longest runs. Sue and I had a little trouble on the t-bar. We kept trying to sit down on the dumb things. That day it was really cold.
Next day we went to Blackjack. I liked that the best. The scenery was gorgeous and the slopes were great.
The last day was kind of a bumm. We got ready to leave.
The drive back was 0.K. It was pouring freezing rain out, and Sue was keeping us wide awake trying to stay on the slippery roads.
We stopped at Toby’s in Hinckley, Minnesota for lunch. We got to Perkins around 5:00.
We also had group meetings every night. They went pretty good. Some neat topics came up.
No way does this article even come close to saying how good the trip was, that would take pages.
One of the reasons I think it was so good is the combination of people who went. Everybody got along really well and had a lot to offer.
For me, I got a lot out of it, I did something I never thought I could, (downhill ski, live with ten people for a whole week, eat Toot’s spaghetti…)
The whole trip was a success. The only thing was it was kind of short.