Beaver Creek/Vail/Keystone - Feb 20-22, 2015
Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 10:57 pm
Well last weekend I went out to Denver to ski with a buddy. I knew the weekend was going to go well when they were serving this on Southwest
I got hooked up with lift tickets for a fraction of their costs via friends and mountain employees. Friday morning was actually pretty awful skiing. Ice everywhere. FIS world championships had just finished so Beaver Creek had some odd terrain that had to wind around the courses (closed). Snow started around lunch time and pretty much it snowed on and off for the rest of the weekend from that point.
Beaver Creek shots
At about 1:45, they closed the entire mountain due to LIGHTENING! Never heard of that. We did was boarders do best and sat down in the snow
it's a joke relax fellas.
It probably snowed about 3 inches during the 30 to 45 minute shut down. We were among the first back up the mountain and it was like first tracks all over again.
This was what the mountain looked like for the remainder of the day
At 3pm these gentleman come out with smiles on their face and give free cookies. Who doesn't like free cookies?
Really enjoyed the aspen trees you get out in that part of Colorado
and the best liquor store name EVER
Saturday we skiied Vail - I gotta say this is one of the biggest and best mountains I've ever skiied. Talk crap about it as you will, but one day I will definitely go back. I never skiied a single run on the front side, except to get back to the base at the end of the day. We lived on the Orient Express chair and Blue Sky Basin. It probably snowed 6 or 7 inches over the course of Friday night and all day Saturday. Fresh tracks could be found by traversing out into the bowls or finding difficult to reach trees.
Lines started getting REAL bad at Orient.
So we worked our way back to Blue Sky Basin and spent the rest of the day there. I met up with another friend of mine, and he showed me some fun little drops on that side...
My buddy
And I finally worked up the courage to hit one
It was supposed to snow over 2 feet around the Vail pass to Denver area Saturday night and Sunday, so we drove back to Denver and opted to hit Keystone Sunday. The snow never really came, so we drove the Loveland Pass to Keystone. I had never been up there.
There's a natural spring there that I filled my camelbak with. There's a sign saying this water should be purified before drinking, but I'm feeling just fine a few days later.
Jeff isn't a fan of pictures. typical local
THe only real cool thing at Keystone was the Kat ride to the Outback Bowls. They bumped the price to $10 from $5 so I only went up once. Had to leave around 2 to get back to the airport. Keystone was cool, but not my favorite.
Had a blast of a weekend. Definitely wanna go back to Vail. Oh and the dispensaries are neat
I got hooked up with lift tickets for a fraction of their costs via friends and mountain employees. Friday morning was actually pretty awful skiing. Ice everywhere. FIS world championships had just finished so Beaver Creek had some odd terrain that had to wind around the courses (closed). Snow started around lunch time and pretty much it snowed on and off for the rest of the weekend from that point.
Beaver Creek shots
At about 1:45, they closed the entire mountain due to LIGHTENING! Never heard of that. We did was boarders do best and sat down in the snow
it's a joke relax fellas. It probably snowed about 3 inches during the 30 to 45 minute shut down. We were among the first back up the mountain and it was like first tracks all over again.
This was what the mountain looked like for the remainder of the day
At 3pm these gentleman come out with smiles on their face and give free cookies. Who doesn't like free cookies?
Really enjoyed the aspen trees you get out in that part of Colorado
and the best liquor store name EVER
Saturday we skiied Vail - I gotta say this is one of the biggest and best mountains I've ever skiied. Talk crap about it as you will, but one day I will definitely go back. I never skiied a single run on the front side, except to get back to the base at the end of the day. We lived on the Orient Express chair and Blue Sky Basin. It probably snowed 6 or 7 inches over the course of Friday night and all day Saturday. Fresh tracks could be found by traversing out into the bowls or finding difficult to reach trees.
Lines started getting REAL bad at Orient.
So we worked our way back to Blue Sky Basin and spent the rest of the day there. I met up with another friend of mine, and he showed me some fun little drops on that side...
My buddy
And I finally worked up the courage to hit one
It was supposed to snow over 2 feet around the Vail pass to Denver area Saturday night and Sunday, so we drove back to Denver and opted to hit Keystone Sunday. The snow never really came, so we drove the Loveland Pass to Keystone. I had never been up there.
There's a natural spring there that I filled my camelbak with. There's a sign saying this water should be purified before drinking, but I'm feeling just fine a few days later.
Jeff isn't a fan of pictures. typical local
THe only real cool thing at Keystone was the Kat ride to the Outback Bowls. They bumped the price to $10 from $5 so I only went up once. Had to leave around 2 to get back to the airport. Keystone was cool, but not my favorite.
Had a blast of a weekend. Definitely wanna go back to Vail. Oh and the dispensaries are neat