We had our choice of activities, and I decided to do tubing on the Google ski trip. My knees aren't that great, and I figured tubing would be low-impact enough.

I was up there doing the tube thing for about 3 1/2 hours, and had a really good time (even if I was by myself). Toward the end I was doing the running leap sort of thing, and that was fun. Though I'm now very, very sore in strange places. My neck hurts, for one, and my shoulders aren't feeling too swell.

All this pain was probably exacerbated from having to walk back up the hill all the time. My cable kept getting unhitched from the tow line about halfway through (there was this little bump in the snow, and it would unhitch then) and I could never manage to connect back on. So I walked. The people managing the area kinda looked at me funny. When they had to go up, they took the tow. I told them I wasn't being macho, I just had a dodgy cable hook thingy. With no other tubes available, I was out of options. Walking up slushy snow at 8,200 feet dragging a big truck inner tube sucks.

All in all I did about 24-30 runs down the little hill. Maybe more, I didn't really count. Towards the end I sat on the tube (vs. my normal "Superman" style of tubing) and took a video with my camera while I went.

I wish the tube run was longer. I'd have been happy going down the entire mountain. I'm going back, and doing skiing this time.

Pictures are going up someplace later.