IN THE DEEP

Late start to the ski blog this year, apologies ~ it's been a hectic world in the Kennedy house with a busy month of moving house, but we've managed to get in a few powder days... Steamboat's had a great first month, at this point we've clocked 150" total inches, nearly half of our seasonal average. Today wasn't a full-on powder day, but it's worthy of posting - a glorious bluebird day after a fluff dusting late last night, and thanks...

A birthday hike around the Vista Trail  We finally paid our favorite ski hill a visit yesterday and found progress steaming ahead! The new Four Points chalet, visible from the base but even more so from the top of Thunderhead, is looking like a castle atop that second knoll to the peak. My reaction: no wonder they got such low marks this year on sustainability, that's a freaking monstrosity. But it'll service our visitors exponentially...

What a delivery. Following what I heard was the "worst day of the season," Mother Nature delivers a 8-10" powderday under bluebird skies. What a way to end the season, totaling 338". Not bad. It started snowing mid morning on Thursday, so we went up for afternoon turns.  It snowed off and on through Friday morning (that day's highlights here), and then warmed up, brightened up, and clouded up again - in usual spring fashion. Saturday's...

We both skied yesterday, but we pressed glass this morning at the Gondola. It was "like" a powderday, there were 5-8" (scoped yesterday), and with no one around, it would be intact. In fact, there were 6 people in line behind us at the Gondola, that's how deserted it is around here. We headed right for Four Points, down a buttery, gorgeous Rudy's, and eyeballed Tornado the whole way up. What was groomed was grabby underneath with 3-6"...

Good Morning,Looking for a little help to spread the love!  YVSC is up for a $5K grant to help with ReTree Steamboat 2013.  Many of you are already familiar with ReTree, but for those of you who aren't - it is an effort YVSC and CSFS have partnered on for four years to plant seedlings in our community to replace trees killed by pine beetles and to increase the diversity of our local forests.  More information can be found at our website http://www.yvsc.org/calendar/upcoming-events/retree-steamboat/. Anyway,...

If the mountain was a butter factory, today's snow would be the homemade creamy kind that spreads easy even on cold toast. You'd think the warmer temps would have made for heavier stuff, and the lower layer may have been so, but it was coming down so hard and fast that we didn't notice, today was voted creamiest day of the year by our bunch. Winter Storm Warning came in around 10pm last night, although it started snowing around suppertime....

Well for the third time in a month we were blessed with a powderday of life changing proportions.  With less than 10 inches on the report I pulled back the curtains this morning to find it puking snow outside.  For those of you wondering how hard it was actually snowing let me put "puking" into context for you.  According the legendary Dougie Fresh, a long time Steamboat local and powder connoisseur, there are three levels of snow intensity.  Dumping, puking, and nuking.  Any day that is is "dumping"...

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"It's just easier on me if we go fast, I can let the ski do what it wants to do," adaptive instructor Derrick Charpentier tells me after we've caught up with him, in the STARS office that is. Because keeping up with him and Amanda on the mountain, was, well virtually impossible.  And I don't ride slow myself. We rolled out this afternoon for a few runs after a morning of work for me and a morning off (IE on the couch) for Craig - much deserved of course.  We met up with Keith, who I am very excited to see back -...

Mt Werner crested over the 200" mark today with the new fallen snow, and after a week of straight stormin', the sunshine came out for a Groundhog Day visit. The mountain's enormous terrain is in impeccable shape; from buttery smooth groomers to powder stashes in the trees, it's all guaranteed to give a serious attitude adjustment. Not that we need one, living in winter wonderland and gifted a week like this last one, but the smile coming...

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The morning report announced another foot of freshies, and had it been 15 degrees still, it would have been two feet... But the much warmer temps made for heavier snow and slower going but it was still fresh, something we hadn't seen in 3 weeks, and it was a gloriously stormy powderday out there on Mt Werner.  The boys loaded the Gondola early, and hit Cyclone-DropOut while Georgie and I made our way up to Pony in a line of a thousand powderhounds. One run down that usually untouched part of the mountain made me realize...

... they made a Pirate Theater about this day a decade ago... and we haven't heard those exact words since.  We've gotten a 28" day, some 18" days, and a lot of days in between, but either my memory fails me, or those exact words haven't made the morning report more than a few times in Steamboat history, and what music to our ears it was. We had all been waiting, patiently, for weeks, and today was the pot at the end of the frozen rainbow.  These are the days we live for - the Phat Tuesdays, the 2 foot dumps, the...