Alexa- skinning Brooke's Mountain

Today Mimi hired Tom to be a guide for us and we skinned 2,000 vertical feet up Brooke's mountain. The group consisted of me, Mom, Dad, Mimi, Frank, and Tom. Skinning is when you put skins on the bottom of your skis and they let you climb up without slipping backwards down the mountain. It took pretty much all day. Tom said it was about a 3 mile hike. It was amazing even though it was really really really tiring. The summit was the most breath-taking thing I've ever seen. You could see so far, and the mountains looked so dramatic. We looked over the edge and it was a sheer drop. It reminded me of something you'd see in an Omni theater movie. After eating lunch, we finally got to ski down. The snow was so nice: untracked powder. You pretty much just floated along on top of the snow; you didn't really need to use any edging. We skinned back up one section and skied it again. Finally we skied all the way back down to the cars. I'm still wicked tired, but it was so fun and I loved it!