More Skiing...

The freakishly tall adventures (on skis) have continued in full force. I think the old cliche "the third times the charm" holds true in Sarah and I's skiing trips. After our initial trip to Keystone (with the giant moguls), we hit Breckenridge the week after Thanksgiving. It was a powder day, which presents quite the duality for us. On one hand powder is cool to ski in, on the other we don't have powder skis and we still haven't quite grasped the subtleties of powder skiing (i.e., we suck at powder). It also meant that the road conditions were not perfect from the heavy snow the night before; however, the Puma (thank Bruce for the nickname), was more than enough machine to handle the snowy conditions. Breckenridge is always nice, but not everything was quite open yet so I didn't get that green slope to warm up on, plus I had boots misadjusted for the first few runs and the powder made all the slopes pretty choppy. We had fun, but certainly not our best day.
A little over cast at Breck
Trip #3, on the other hand, went a lot smoother. We decided to hit up Arapahoe Basin (or A-basin if you're a local like me), and although its the smallest of the mountains on our pass, it only has 69 trails, we had a great time. We found a lot of trails we liked and there was more than enough variety to keep us interested. The trails were mainly packed-powder, but you could also go off trail in a few places to practice powder skiing. We didn't attempt the moguls again this time, but we're getting closer to building up our confidence again.
Clear Blue Skies at A-Basin
It was a gorgeous day, and really the only negative was the 4:00pm skiing traffic. I had some horrible flashbacks to rush hour on 66 in DC, as we averaged about 10 mph for 40 miles of highway traffic. The trip to A-basin took just under 2 hours, the trip back took just under 3 hours.


Next up on the ski horizon is Vail...watch out Vail you're on Notice!