Moguls & Dumplings

2016: TELLURIDE	The Lafayette Ski and Snowboard Club went to Telluride January 13-19, 2016.  Nancy and I joined the LSSC and participated in the trip. Dan and Linda Stowell are also members of LSSC, so it felt a little bit familiar as the old Aspen group... We shared a condo with John and Gail Copeland, Dan Stowell, and David Dull (great roommates).
2015: The "Last" Aspen trip?	2015 attendees: Michelle and Dave Overley, Nancy and Ted Nygreen, Dan Stowell and Lynn Owens and Linda Stowell. The group has dwindled, and it was informally decided that this would be the last M&D gathering at Lift One. (End of an era.)
2014 Aspen	2014 club members present: Cindy and Dan Stowell, Michelle and Dave Overley, Nancy and Ted Nygreen, Pat and Don Frischmann.
2013 Aspen	2013 club members present: Cindy and Dan Stowell, Michelle and Dave Overley, Karen Hudachko, Nancy and Ted Nygreen, Debbie and Peter Austin, Leslie Schomaker, Margaret Marshall, Pat and Don Frischmann. (Missing from photo: Karen Hudachko, Debbie+Peter Austin)
2012 Aspen	Two newcomers this year: Leslie Schomaker and Kathy Boyle. Plus regulars: Joy and Bill Pierce, Nancy and Ted Nygreen, Michele and Dave Overley, Dan and Cindy Stowell. As usual, Don and Pat Frischman joined us much of the time. (And Ed Petrocius as well.)
2011 Aspen	Only 6 Moguls and Dumplings this time:  Nancy and Ted Nygreen, Michele and Dave Overley, Dan and Cindy Stowell
2010 Aspen	The Moguls and Dumplings this time included (l-r) Mary Hyder, Dan Stowell, Pat Frischmann, Don Frischmann, Cindy Stowell, Michele Overley, Dave Overley, Joy Pierce, Bill Pierce, Nancy Nygreen, Ted Nygreen
2009 Aspen	Seated: Don and Pat Frischmann, Dan Stowell, Michelle Overley, Ed Petrocius, Bill and Joy Pierce Standing: Dave and Karen Hudachko, Nancy and Ted Nygreen, Dave Overley (Cindy Stowell missing because she went to Denver!)
2008 Aspen	Dave Overley, Dick DeVoe, Dan Stowell, Michele Overley, Nancy Nygreen, Pat Frischmann, David Rowe, Cindy Stowell, Joy Pierce, Bill Pierce, Christy DeVoe, Don Frischmann, and Ted Nygreen. Absent from photo: Diane Rowe.
2007 VAIL	Dave and Michelle Overley, Kathleen Roemheld, Nancy and Ted Nygreen, Don and Pat Frischmann, Dan and Cindy Stowell
2006 Aspen	Dave Hudachko, Don Frischmann, Joy and Bill Pierce, Nancy and Ted Nygreen, Dan Stowell, Dave and Michelle Overley, Cindy Stowell, Pat Frischmann, Karen Hudachko.
2005 Aspen	Cindy and Dan Stowell, Joy and Bill Pierce, Michelle and Dave Overley, Karen and Dave Hudachko, Nancy and Ted Nygreen.
2004 Aspen	Cindy and Dan Stowell, Pat and Don Frischmann, Joy and Bill Pierce, Nancy and Ted Nygreen, Michelle and Dave Overley, Bill Lynn, Kevin Lynn
2003 Aspen	Cindy and Dan Stowell, Pat and Don Frischmann, Joy and Bill Pierce, Nancy and Ted Nygreen, Michelle and Dave Overley, Judy and Bill Lynn, Christie and Dick Devoe, Debbie Devoe
2002 Whistler	Cindy and Dan Stowell, Pat and Don Frischmann, Joy and Bill Pierce, Nancy and Ted Nygreen, Christie and Dick Devoe, Karen and Dave Hudachko, Rick Williams, Michelle Overley, Debbie Devoe

Next, here is the Psalm that Cindy Stowell wrote (?) or at least spoke to us in 2003 and 2004:

A Non-Denominational Psalm to Skiing (Psalm 151)

Blessed are the mountains, for their splendor inspires, their groomed slopes amuse, and their gullies and steeps challenge.

Blessed are the lift operators, for they shall raise up humanity to a higher level.

Blessed are all those who ski on the snow, who obeyeth the safety rules, who stoppeth on the right side of the run, who drinketh the wine in moderation, for they shall have fine memories to keep for years to come.

Blessed are the instructors – who coach and critique and persevere, against all odds, to help lesser mortals attain perfection.

In you, Oh instructor, I put my trust, may you never abandon me in my imperfection, but deliver me into perfectly carved turns.

Blessed is he (or she) who tumbleth over a mogul and who gets up laughing – for his (or her) sin shall be forgiven, and he (or she) will be given another mogul to practice on.

Blessed are all the Lito students who ski not in the ways of the beginner, nor suffer old equipment, nor fall from the lift but who shall delight in shaped skis and the law of the phantom turn for they shall delight in the gifts of snow, sun and scenery – and they deserveth a lovely soak in a hot tub and another glass of wine.