I have spent 1 week of my 6 week vacation and have played volleyball sand doubles on 5 of the days.  There is a great court in the city park and I have hooked up with a group of serious beach players.  The players here only use the new Spalding ball. (no more yellow AVP balls). So to all my volleyball friends you HAVE GOT to try this new ball.  It’s lighter and easer to control than the Wilson yellow ball.

Between hiking the mountain trials and playing sand 2″s I am getting a ton of exersise.  Too bad there are so many great resturants to replenish all those burned calories.  Last weekend was a big arts festival downtown. The population of Crested Butte is less than 2,000 at an elevation of 8,880 ft.  We went on a hike to one the worlds largest Aspen groves.  I learned that Aspen groves are all one organism.  For two dimensional area, the largest known clonal flowering plant, and indeed largest plant and organism, is a grove of male Aspen in Utah, nicknamed Pando (Populus tremuloides). The grove is connected by a single root system, and each stem above the ground is genetically identical. It is estimated to weigh approximately 6,000,000 kg,[6] and covers 0.43 km² (106 acres).

Every Wednesday night there is a free concert at the base of the ski mountain.  It is a short walk down the hill from my house.

 

 

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