Skiing
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
The G.O.A.T.
As the 2022/23 ski season winds down, I’d be remiss in not mentioning this. History was made.
Change of scenery, change of plans
For the past several years we have made it a tradition to take a mid-winter ski trip with members of our extended family. Over the years the location and participants and have changed but we’ve been consistent with an annual trip to somewhere in the mountains. This year we chose Winter Park.
Continue reading…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.
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