Rocky Mountain High

Ice Holes - Summer Season 2014

These are exciting times for the Ice Holes.  Just to catch you up on some of our recent activities - the Holes are currently two-time champions in the GAHL C1 division.  After winning a spectacular summer season championship game, we set up an equally thrilling championship win for the fall season.  Did I hear someone mention the word "dynasty"?

Ice Holes - Fall Season 2014

Well, "dynasty" might be a little hasty right now, considering we're winless so far in the winter season, but hey, we're a playoff team.  It'll come together.

Which bring us up to the next big item on the agenda for the Holes:  the annual pond hockey trip.  After an awesome trip last year to Vermont, which included a little skiing for some in the group, we decided the combination of pond hockey and skiing just made too much sense together to not do that again.  And when it comes to skiing, there is, perhaps, one place that comes to mind more than any other - Colorado.  I was tasked with finding a tournament that would scratch both itches, and I found it in the form of the Pabst Blue Ribbon Colorado Pond Hockey Tournament, held in Silverthorne, CO.

If you'd like to check out the tournament's website, you can jump to it here.

Silverthorne is located about an hour and a half west of Denver and in the middle of some of the best skiing in the state.  We've got two teams going again this year and are registered in the "Brown Bottle" division, which is the one level above the "Stay Home and Just Forget It" division.  Maybe we'll be able to hold our own this year. 

We head out bright and early on the morning of February 13th, will play the tournament over the weekend, then do a couple days of skiing at Winter Park Ski Resort on Monday and Tuesday.  With the advance forecast for Silverthorne being in the teens and twenties in the next 10 days, as well as some good new snow on the mountain at Winter Park, it looks like we might have optimum conditions on both counts. 

As in the past, I'll do my best to keep you posted on all the excitement.  In the next installment, we'll discuss the rosters for this trip, as well as a team name change.


Bryan