Today was going to be bluebird, so excellent view on the way up. Note: Saturday traffic gets hairy early, so be sure to hit the road early:
These guys slowed traffic down a little, but we moved pretty good for most of the trip up:
As KneeDeep has already reported, Loveland was looking SWEET as we passed by:
Copper was looking pretty good too on the way by:
Teh Beav was GOOD! No crowds and maybe a 1 min. lift line at the most:
Most of the fresh pow was tracked, but we found a few good spots:
John & I found that the blues here have some pretty decent steeps, Raven Ridge I think:
The armada was out in full grooming force:
This place was pretty sweet, but check out the sign:
Looking down one of the blues:
Birds of Prey & Grouse Mountain in the background... it's hard to capture the steeps:
I love this sign:
Beaver Creek was GOOD and not crowded at all for a Saturday. We found the left side of the mountain near Lift 8 to be a lot softer than the right side near Arrowhead. The Arrowhead side was actually a little icy and reminded me of East Coast skiing... booo! We got in a lot more skiing today without the wife and were able to cover most of the mountain. This place has some steeps! I would definitely recommend BC for 1-2 days. And the shuttle system from the free parking lot was most excellent.
We hit up Burger King on the way out for a quick bite to eat and it really surprised me how many of Sugar's lifties were there
Almost thought I was going to have to press 1 for English!The trip back to Lakewood was going good until we got back to the tunnel and hit a dead stop in front of Loveland for ~45 mins. I'm guessing there was an accident, since we didn't move the entire time. Loveland night runs were looking really tempting... yeah, I've got a maglite! We finally got going and saw no remains of said accident, but the typical Saturday evening traffic started to kick in from there.
Got back and had a few more of the Rocky Mountains finest then made the call that Day 4 was a go!
