The Brehm Ski Trip Report

By Jonathan Cohen, Brehm Information Systems Specialist and Robotics Mentor

The annual Brehm School Ski Trip took place at the end of February. This year, like past years, we went to Durango Colorado for a few days of skiing and side trips.

While all of the kids we traveled with had flown before, few had been on a plane that you had to balance passenger weight in. The flights were fine though, we arrived in Durango the morning of the 21st, and although we were tired from the early morning flight we were all excited.

The group enjoyed 3 days of skiing on 2 feet of fresh snow. Everyone, first-timers and veterans alike had a lot of fun. This year we had a mix of kids with different skiing abilities. David and Adrien learned to ski for the first time while Haroun learned how to snowboard. The rest of the group had been skiing or snowboarding before, although there was not a single person in the group that did not fall at least once.

Wednesday the group drove to nearby Mesa Verde National Park to take a tour of the Pueblo Indian cave dwelling before returning to Carbondale the next day.

We are busily planning next years trip. Look for a display at Parents weekend and move-in weekend in August. Special thanks to the staff at Colorado Timberline Academy for giving us a place to stay and giving us a great dinner each night.