First Skiing Adventure of 2014!

So today was both my first skiing adventure of 2014 and my first skiing adventure of this winter (as I mentioned, it's been super cold here, so I haven't been able to do anything outside!)  I also apparently didn't go skiing last winter either, so this was my first time out since 2012!

Today I went with my mom to Kamview.  I did my best to use the strategy that works for me (25% of my basal and 30% insulin for dinner); unfortunately I had to guess at the carbohydrates for dinner as I wasn't able to measure them.  So I started out at 4.9 mmol/L before dinner, which was a bit lower than I would have liked.  But right before skiing, I was up to 14.4, meaning I was good to go!

When we got out to Kamview, my glucose was up to 16.5, which was a bit higher than I would have liked.  But we started skiing, stopping before and after the Northern Lights trail to do glucose.  I was 13.3 at the beginning and 12.0 at the end; I successfully made it!

When I got back to the car at the end of everything, for some reason my glucose was up to 14.8, and back home it went up to 16.9.  I'm not entirely sure what happened there (I'm guessing the basal either went too long or needs to be a little higher than 25%), but I did insulin at that point (and also had some hot chocolate...) to bring it back down; I'm 13.3 a few hours later (thanks in part to the hot chocolate, which I didn't bolus for). 

So I stayed a little too high through this whole evening, but I did successfully make it around the Northern Lights trail on my first night out this year!  My glucometer also worked the entire time I was out.  I'm now using a Contour because it links with my insulin pump; the Contour seems to withstand the cold a bit better than the One Touch I used to use (although it was pretty warm out, so I'll have to test it out again in a bit colder weather).