Gobble Gobble Day

A few of us decided there is no better way to celebrate Turkey day than to start by making a few turns with a couple of cold ones at Argenta.

Ride em pab "2nd debutt"

How awesome is this

Practicing my right turn using outside right edge only.

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First Colorado Tour

Myself and Snoworries went up to Loveland Pass on Wednesday prior to my departure back east.

Here's a map of our route:


Key:
Red - Ascended
Blue - Descended

Tour Details:
2hrs and 30mins
2 Laps
700' gained
1400' descended

1st Ski tour of season

Well I'm sitting in Blue Star Cafe sipping on coffee recovering from being shitfaced all day yesterday riding with friends at Solitude and taking a short break from 6 days in a row. Going to make turns today on my new sticks after my caffeine fix. This past Monday I decided to go skin up Deer Valley instead of riding chairs. To accompany me I brought the dags. Started at Empire base and skinned up to the top of the Empire chair. As the sun blazed down on the snow it softened up and making turns was quite enjoyable for the three us. I wasn't able to get low enough for face shots but the dogs were choking on snow the whole way down. yep I was jealous and made them sit in the back seat on the way home.

Empire Peak

I wish I could be as fast as Izzie and Hanky on the uptracks

Top lift shack on Empire Mtn

Most efficient way up from the lodge was to use Orion trail to summit Empire Mtn.

A-Basin

Snoworries and I decided to hit the Basin today, not bad for preseason, had a few more runs open than last visit. It was a nice spring day, 50degs and sunny.

The Basin:

Snoworries working hard:

The Professor, we're hiking this tomorrow before I leave for NY:

The Professor is accessible from Loveland Pass, so we'll hit the Basin first for a few runs early on and then around 11am make our way to the summit. It looked pretty tracked out but yet still plenty to get for tomorrow.

Snowboy-

Opening Weekend

Solitude resort opened this weekend with 4 chairs running. After 3 days in a row my legs are feeling the burn and need rest. With all returning friends, this season is going to kick ass. THINK SNOW and keep your tips up! Or as crazy george would say "ski you later"

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More pics from Loveland

Loveland Pass/AVI Training

We woke up and made the decision to practice with our avalanche transceivers at Loveland Pass today.  Reality set in quickly when we practiced our multiple burial searching.  Keep on practicing because practice makes better!

Winter Weather for Rockies

I'm currently hanging in Columbus, but heading back to D-Town tomorrow and it looks like I'm in for a little treat:


Hopefully we receive the higher side of the forecasts and I'll be playing in over a foot of freshies on Thursday! StacheMan will definitely be coming Thursday, work or no work, he's in.

ULLR spotted on the East-Coast