Category: Snow
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Wavin’ If Yer Hornin’
New Year’s. Hut Trips. Fat bikes. Suffering. This one definitely had it all. After a two year hiatus from going on hut trips due to Covid, thanks to responsible friends and vaccines we’re back at it with three huts booked this year. Unfortunately, Teh Spousal Unit™ (oh right, need to catch y’all up on that!)…
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Hod-rodding a pair of new ski boots
So after seven years, my beloved Scarpa Freedom SL ski boots finally gave up the ghost on my recent trip to Jackson Hole and Snowbird. The liners just packed out enough that I needed to add a bunch of material to take up volume. It’s working okay, but I feel like I’ve gotten my money’s…
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Miles, send the jump!
With a raging storm in California, who knew if decent snow would make its way to Colorado? The Mayor knows, if anyone. So when he started hatching a plan to be on the Western Slope this past week, I was all ears. His plan was to visit his buddy in Crawford and fish for a…
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Trending Politics
This has been a strange year, but it hasn’t been all bad. There’s still time and space to get outside and share great experiences with amazing people… even if they do yammer on about conspiracy theories and politics for most of the car ride to the trailhead. Today’s mission was “simple”… we’d climb the Y…
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Getting a high mountain tune up
Skied my second 14er this year. Let me rephrase, I skied my third 14er of all time, the second of this year. With a deep and mostly stable snowpack going into the summer months, it’ll be a while before high country mountain biking is in so I figured why not ski a couple big(ger) objectives?…
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The Vortex!
As I’m getting closer to my goal of a 50+ day ski season, I think about how blessed we’ve been this season with consistent snowfall and some really stellar conditions. Today is Day 44, and there’s still plenty of freaking awesome skiing to be had. Awesome skiing like The Vortex, a classic west and southwest…
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Powder Addiction
The only thing more sublime than skiing completely untracked backcountry powder on a sunny day… is not having to walk uphill to get to it. I was treated to such a thing by my friend’s Jeff and Claire, who invited myself and another friend, Heather, for a day of guided backcountry catskiing with Powder Addiction…
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Night Skiing
Yesterday, right after work we met up with some friends and carpooled up to Loveland to get a little skinning practice, exercise, and skiing in. Snow was falling (win!), coverage was the best I’ve seen it yet (win!), and it was actually kind of deep in some areas near the top (win!). Despite the fact that it…
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T.I.T.S. Ride: Mother Effing Cold
Today is Friday, so yesterday was Thursday, and that means night riding on Green Mountain. It was barely 20*F, which I knew might be past my limit for riding, at night, in the winter, but I gave it a go anyhow. I was encouraged a bit when some of the guys commented that it was “frigid out,”…
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Ski Days 6 & 7 @ Loveland
It is still a while before the season really kicks into high gear, but skiing two days in a row is definitely helping me get my legs ready for long hard days on the planks. We only planned on skiing on Saturday, but ended up heading to Loveland again on Sunday for a demo day put on…
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Arapahoe Basin Opening Day 2011-12
Thursday was my second opening day for a ski area in under one week. Pretty sweet to able to check out the first two openings in the state, I have only ever attended one opening day prior to this year. Traditionally, here in Colorado Arapahoe Basin or Loveland are the first to open, and when…
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Opening Day 2011-12: Wolf Creek
My alarm was set for an usually early hour for a Saturday morning, but it wasn’t the sound of my alarm that woke me up, but rather cheers and excited chatter in the hallway. In my half-sleep, from my unfamiliar bed in room 202, I couldn’t really make out what they were saying, but I…
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