The snow Gods are smiling down on northern Colorado this week, making up for lost time, filling in the holes, and bringing joy to all the little powderhounds.
Our wee gaggle of single trackers honed in on first Gondy and first chair at Four Points today, (a-thankyou Craig!) and we were chomping at the bit after hearing a patroller say we got 18" in the last 24 hours. It's the never-ending storm, so much so that I honestly can't - no really - remember when it started. We are skiing ourselves into shape quickly on Mt. Werner, and no one's complaining. In fact, we're downright bragging. Everytime I look at my Ski Report app (get it, awesome), Steamboat still has the highest dropcount. 10" on this morning's report, but it's so much deeper than that. We're inching our base above 40 now... soon the trees will be safe again!
Rudy's and Blizzard were magic velvet, and it just kept getting better from there. From 4P we did a Nelson's - Hurricane, hooting and hollering and OMG-ing the whole way down. I was watching Craig get face shot after face shot on every turn, with snow billowing over his head (nearing goggle failure) , and up above my own knees in spots. It felt like a backcountry day, weaving the outside of the track before me to assure freshies the whole way down. Glorious. Hurricane was so nice, we had to hit it twice, taking Storm up to do a "Nose" run down the center of the face and then over to Hurricane's creamy left side. There was nothing to do but smile, shit-eating-grin style. It was perfect, every last bit of it.
More terrain and lifts are opening every day- and today it was Sundown, so from there we headed over to do a Clock lap, from 3 to 2 to Daybreak, all good, all deep, all the time. Then another Nose lap to get us down before we headed into work.
It's still coming down out there, check the grooming report for openings, stay safe, and see you In the Deep! (Which looks like it'll be tomorrow once again!)
Our wee gaggle of single trackers honed in on first Gondy and first chair at Four Points today, (a-thankyou Craig!) and we were chomping at the bit after hearing a patroller say we got 18" in the last 24 hours. It's the never-ending storm, so much so that I honestly can't - no really - remember when it started. We are skiing ourselves into shape quickly on Mt. Werner, and no one's complaining. In fact, we're downright bragging. Everytime I look at my Ski Report app (get it, awesome), Steamboat still has the highest dropcount. 10" on this morning's report, but it's so much deeper than that. We're inching our base above 40 now... soon the trees will be safe again!
Rudy's and Blizzard were magic velvet, and it just kept getting better from there. From 4P we did a Nelson's - Hurricane, hooting and hollering and OMG-ing the whole way down. I was watching Craig get face shot after face shot on every turn, with snow billowing over his head (nearing goggle failure) , and up above my own knees in spots. It felt like a backcountry day, weaving the outside of the track before me to assure freshies the whole way down. Glorious. Hurricane was so nice, we had to hit it twice, taking Storm up to do a "Nose" run down the center of the face and then over to Hurricane's creamy left side. There was nothing to do but smile, shit-eating-grin style. It was perfect, every last bit of it.
More terrain and lifts are opening every day- and today it was Sundown, so from there we headed over to do a Clock lap, from 3 to 2 to Daybreak, all good, all deep, all the time. Then another Nose lap to get us down before we headed into work.
It's still coming down out there, check the grooming report for openings, stay safe, and see you In the Deep! (Which looks like it'll be tomorrow once again!)