Mom’s Weekend with Dad (After)

The weekend I shared with my dad was all I expected it to be…and more. We arrived in Sandpoint on Friday evening. We checked into our hotel and went out to get some dinner. We ate dinner at Slates Prime Time restaurant. It is right across the street from the Motel 6. They have great food and tons of choices of beer. After dinner we went back to the hotel to pass out early…we had wanted to catch first lift in the morning.

We rode Saturday and Sunday. Both days were blue bird and amazing. We spent most of Saturday on the backside and found a lot of untouched powder in the trees. After a full day of shredding we enjoyed a live band that started playing on the patio outside the lodge around four. Everyone was stoked from a good day on the mountain and was ready to party. The music and dancing went on well into the night. People of all ages were boogying down with their ski boots, ski poles and tropical attire. We decided to call it a day around eight or so and headed back down to Sandpoint.

Sunday was the final day that Schweitzer was open to the public skiing and snowboarding. It was sunny and hot. The pond skimming in the village was in full swing. Around one in the afternoon people began gathering around the dummy course. The dummy course consisted of a long, steep, groomed run with a jump at the bottom. Contestants had submitted dummies of all shapes and sizes. There were around twenty dummies in all. Each one had a shot a cruising down the run, hitting the jump and seeing how far it could fly. Some dummies crashed and burned while other dummies soared. This was my favorite event of the weekend.

We rode for a few hours after the dummy race and then we had to get back to Spokane so my dad could catch his flight. Mom’s weekend last year was one of the best weekends I’ve had a Schweitzer and my dad had such a great time my parents are already making plans so they can both come this year.