While most people in Steamboat have been basking in the sun and thinking about golf for the past few weeks as the sun baked our SKI TOWN under 60+ degree skies for a week and a half, I was sitting at home crying and praying for more snow. Well we finally got it! This past Sunday it was a balmy 58 degrees, but by Monday morning it was back down to 15 degrees and dumping snow. By Wednesday, we (and really I mean me because nobody was on the hill) were skiing the fresh again to the tune of about ten inches of fluff. By Thursday, it was full on winter again and the locals were out to play with close to two feet accumulated in a couple of days.
Flyers Dave, and my BFF and I took to the hill with a vengeance, tearing up our favorite runs without stopping to even breathe. Sideburn to Sunset to Moonlight Trees is my new favorite warm up and it did not disappoint. As I pulled into the lift line people asked me if I had cold. “No, I’m just choking on snow,” I replied with a huge grin on my face. And then on to the top of three o’clock to 1:30 trees, and then over to Storm Face meadow and Hurricane, and then we hit Sideburn again before heading over to Four Points Lift Line and the deepest snow of the morning. After cruising the rest of our favorite stashes (sorry, can’t tell you where they are unless you come ski with me) we did a long top to bottom and went home to lick our wounds from the day. OK maybe there weren’t any wounds, but after only two powder days in six weeks we aren’t in quite as good shape as we were mid season.
If you haven’t hit the hill lately, now is the time to go. I can’t believe we only have 15 days left in our season. Hope to see you In The Deep real soon.
Flyers Dave, and my BFF and I took to the hill with a vengeance, tearing up our favorite runs without stopping to even breathe. Sideburn to Sunset to Moonlight Trees is my new favorite warm up and it did not disappoint. As I pulled into the lift line people asked me if I had cold. “No, I’m just choking on snow,” I replied with a huge grin on my face. And then on to the top of three o’clock to 1:30 trees, and then over to Storm Face meadow and Hurricane, and then we hit Sideburn again before heading over to Four Points Lift Line and the deepest snow of the morning. After cruising the rest of our favorite stashes (sorry, can’t tell you where they are unless you come ski with me) we did a long top to bottom and went home to lick our wounds from the day. OK maybe there weren’t any wounds, but after only two powder days in six weeks we aren’t in quite as good shape as we were mid season.
If you haven’t hit the hill lately, now is the time to go. I can’t believe we only have 15 days left in our season. Hope to see you In The Deep real soon.