It just might have been too much of a good thing.

When 140 people from Eudora recently traveled to Winter Park, Colo., for what has become an annual ski trip, they were hoping for a fresh dusting of snow.

The 70 inches they got was a little unexpected.

“I remember thinking, ‘it snowed me,'” said 17-year-old Jaime Becker, who is a little more than 5 feet tall.

The biggest winter storm in 90 years closed roads and shut down passes, making travel nearly impossible. And although a few straggled back over treacherous roads earlier this week, the rest were forced to spend two extra days at the lodge and didn’t make it home until early Saturday morning.

Janet Campbell, who separated from the larger group Tuesday to go gambling at Black Hawk wound up making an unexpected trip to Boulder upon learning I-70 was closed.

And Wednesday, trapped between two closed highways, her small group spent 10 hours at a Flying J truck stop.

How did she fill the time?

“You could get on the computer, which I did,” she said. “You sit in the trucker’s lounge and watch TV … but even though we thought that the war was going on, they insisted on watching TNT.”

And eating was an option, Campbell said, but the one waitress was actually a truck driver. None of the regular staff had been able to get to work.

Meanwhile, back at the lodge, people were killing time building snow tunnels, playing pool in the dark — the lodge lost power for a few hours — and later, skiing.

Two cars in a parking lot in Winterpark, Colo., show the magnitude of the snowstorm the area received. A group of more than 100 people from Eudora were stranded in Colorado during an annual ski trip, and most of them did not get home until early Saturday. The photo, which was taken Wednesday, was donated by Eudora resident Joni Becker.

“You’d ski along and there would be so much snow building up in front of you that you couldn’t breathe,” said Richard Campbell, Janet’s husband.

Quarters were close, said Don Durkin, who has organized the trip for the past 11 years. But he said those at the lodge had the essentials: food, shelter and access to the Kansas University men’s basketball game.

“Everything was fine,” he said. “Just a little stressful being stuck there for a couple of extra days.”

By the time everyone was able to get back on the road, the challenges were far from over.

Janet Campbell’s group had to drive all the way to Pueblo before finding an open road to Kansas.

“We just kept driving,” she said. “I wanted to go home. We were all pretty rank at that point.”

Becker and a few others spent six hours driving from Winter Park to Colorado Springs.

And the large group on the chartered buses loaned a seat to a couple who needed to get home fast because the man had just been called to military duty.

Yet everyone said they would go again.

“I had the best ski trip I’ve ever had in my life,” Richard Campbell said. “It’s always been my dream to get snowed in out there at the mountain, so we can keep skiing.”