Monarch Mountain
Local Perk
One of the best things about living IN the mountains, as opposed to NEAR the mountains or, god forbid, AWAY FROM the mountains, is that every now and then Mother Nature offers up a little gift in the way of weather that you can partake of only if you’re here to experience it first-hand.
Continue readingThe shape of winter
Opening Day
Around here there are certain distinctly recognizable events that mark the changing of the seasons. Spring is the explosion of wildflowers in the mountains. It’s fall when the surrounding hillsides are covered in aspen gold. And you know its summer when highway 50 is jammed with campers with out-of-state plates.
Continue readingClosing time
…and a happy New Year
To start off 2023 Mother Nature gifted the Sawatch range and indeed, most of Colorado, with a major dump of new snow. The Colorado Avalanche Information Center map went red overnight. High avalanche danger = great skiing. Just make sure you stay inbounds.
Continue reading‘Tis the season
Ski season! We made our first trip up to Monarch this season to check out the conditions.
Continue readingLifts? Where we’re going we don’t need lifts.*
* Chapeau to Doc Brown.
Greetings and happy 2022. May it be less of a shitshow than 2021, although the way things are going, it doesn’t look promising.
Although there are clearly more pressing matters in the world these days, I wanted to talk about something else on my mind: learning new things.
Continue readingSteep and Deep
The month of March is certainly making up for what has been an otherwise ‘meh’ snow season in Colorado. I woke up Wednesday with intentions of going for a bike ride but with five or so inches of fresh snow at the house and Monarch reporting nine it seemed like skiing would be the better option.
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