Pining for the Fjords

Need to catch up?  Here's Part 4 . When we ended the last Ragnar Snowmass blog, Chris and I were on our own, fast asleep in the Hotel Teatro, after a night spend wandering around downtown Denver and sampling its many delights. As you might imagine, we were slow to get moving the next morning; I took another amazing bath in the fancy bathtub, while Chris headed out to get coffee and chai.  We met downstairs in our hotel's restaurant, the Nickel, for a later, slightly lighter breakfast. Our home for the night in Denver! We decided to head for the nearby US Mint, figuring we're always up for a good tour to see how things are made (the nerdier, the better!), but the tickets were all gone for the day (the website I found said people start lining up at 5:45am for entrance, and apparently, that was actually the case.  Dang!).  I looked up a walking tour on the Frommers website instead, and away we went!  On the tour, we headed back past the Convention Center and ende

In Part 3 of the Snowmass blog series, we finished running the event! After we said goodbye to Tim and Jake, we drove to downtown Aspen and battled for parking, before having a delicious lunch with Jen and Bryan.  We bid them adieu as well, and we headed back to Snowmass Village, to check into our home for the evening, the Westin.  We took some of the best showers in the world (the shower/bathroom itself was fine, but any shower after running for 24 straight hours and camping for multiple days is always amazing), and then promptly passed out in the hotel room bed for a delightful nap. Upon awakening around 5:30pm or so, we put ourselves to the task of figuring out where we were eating dinner that night.  After doing another destination Ragnar in Vegas a few years back, and waiting FOREVER to eat dinner (due to the huge crowds of famished runners), I was determined not to repeat that experience, so before we even left for Snowmass, I made a reservation for the entire team at a near