Steamboat's had a good dumping of snow in the past few days while we were in Denver and we came home yesterday with eyes on the prize for skiing this morning's leftovers - and glad we did. It was a beautifully warm midday under "Giants-Blue" skies (watch out Patriots!); we got up at about 10:40 and made turns for about 2 hours with Pops, aka Wild Bill, who was ashamed today was his first day of the season. (Some Local!)
We rode the lifts up and made our first mid-mountain turns down Rudys to Storm - soft groomer for carving! We got wind that Sundown Lift was closed, so we skirted from the top to Sunshine and down the lift line and what a glorious run that was - groovy-soft rollers, powder along the sides in the trees, and I punched a little into Pumphouse and was pleased I did, cotton-ball fresh. And then came the burn for Old Man Kennedy, this is why we call it "skiing into shape." That long run reminded Wild Bill he shoulda been riding his trusty treadmill more often!
We rode up Sunshine and took Flintlock this time, where I trailed our monoskier all decked out in his #10 Manning jersey. Why not, he'll be wearing that for 2 more weeks mind you. And hopefully more... but this isn't the place to talk football.
Watch and learn...
Good news, more snow is on the horizon - it seems Steamboat is finally out of its doughnut-hole! Time to build that base!
-See you In The Deep!
We rode the lifts up and made our first mid-mountain turns down Rudys to Storm - soft groomer for carving! We got wind that Sundown Lift was closed, so we skirted from the top to Sunshine and down the lift line and what a glorious run that was - groovy-soft rollers, powder along the sides in the trees, and I punched a little into Pumphouse and was pleased I did, cotton-ball fresh. And then came the burn for Old Man Kennedy, this is why we call it "skiing into shape." That long run reminded Wild Bill he shoulda been riding his trusty treadmill more often!
We rode up Sunshine and took Flintlock this time, where I trailed our monoskier all decked out in his #10 Manning jersey. Why not, he'll be wearing that for 2 more weeks mind you. And hopefully more... but this isn't the place to talk football.
Watch and learn...
Good news, more snow is on the horizon - it seems Steamboat is finally out of its doughnut-hole! Time to build that base!
-See you In The Deep!