Day 57

Beaver Creek with Lance and Jeff. cruised the mountain all day, Tweeked my back a bit. Had fun till the back thing. Taking tomorrow off. Off to Vail on Monday Pray for Snow.

Day 56 Ouch

A-basin this morning with Lance. decided it would be fun to tomahawk on my snowboard in an open powder field while bombing a run. Not so much a good idea. Kinda hurts a bit, but Im still god to go. Went and picked up Jeff from the airport. Heading to Beaver Creek tomorrow with Jeff and Lance. Can't wait.

Day 55

Beaver Creek, Went up with Lance for a half day. In and out of the trees, catching the last of the powder from the last storm. Took some pretty big falls, but nothing serious. Stuck around for s'mores at the base, and they were giving away free rum as well. I'm a big fan of Beaver Creek, all of the other ski resorts could learn alot from them. Heading to A-basin tomorrow then down to Denver to get Jeff.

Day 54

Vail, made laps in Blue Sky Basin with Lance, some of the best runs of the season. Had such a great day. Hit up the trees and the open bowls. Vail got about 3" of snow, but they had alot of powder remains from the last storm. Heading up to Beaver Creek tomorrow. Should be another banner day on the mountain.

Day 53

Breckenridge, headed over with Lance in the afternoon for about four hours. Powder was all tracked out, so we just cruised the mountain and worked on hitting 360's in the flats and riding switch. All in all a good day until I tweeked my knee a bit and strained it. Not enough to take me out of the game, but it is definately noticable when Im on my toes. Well nothing some icey hot can't fix I hope.

Day 52 POWDER

Vail with Lance, they got 10" overnight. Rode with Tiz and Jeff in the morning. So much fun. Hit up the back bowls in the afternoon and just cruised the mountain all day. My legs finally gave out after 7 days on the mountain and 2 in the powder. We are just going to take it easy over at Breck tomorrow. We got some cool pics, and video

Just a little snow.

Lance in the Sun Up Bowl.

Looking down the Sun Up Bowl.

Lance and Chad.

The car at 9:30 after the day at Vail

Stuck in the snow.

Vail Sun Up Bowl.

Day 51 POWDER

Vail with Lance today. They reported 9" of snow on the mountain, but when we got in the back bowls it was knee to waist deep. So much fun. You had to keep your speed up at all times or you would sink and get stuck. I found that out the hard way. Met up with Tizzle and her friends halfway thru the day and just killed it till about 3:15. It snowed all day as well, so back to Vail tomorrow for more powder and less people. I hope my legs dont give out on me.

Day 50

Keystone at night. Got back in town this afternoon from Steamboat, and headed up to Keystone for some night riding with Lance. Yeah that won't happen again. We made about 4 runs and decided that it was to cold and the runs were way to icy. We decided to call it a day and save our legs for Vail tomorrow.

Days 47,48, and 49 Roadtrip

Headed up to Steamboat on Tuesday, got up there and rode with Lance and Michael for a couple of days. Then Lance and I headed down to Beaver Creek for a half day on Friday. Such a good trip. I learned to hit jumps and Lance mastered the 180 off the jumps. Learning jumps has opened up so much more on the mountains. Some pics.

The cowboys have learned to snowboard.

Being one with nature.

Don't fall asleep first.

Lance on day 3 "Sunday Funday"

I think we will all agree.

First you toast the mallo.

Day 46

Keystone in the morning, as I was leaving the slopes it started to snow, about par for the course so far. Came home and packed, off to Steamboat this afternoon until Friday. Pray for snow.

Day 45

Keystone this morning with Taylor. Started working on trying to ollie. Made laps for a couple of hours the headed to the house. Keystone again tomorrow, the heading to Steamboat to ride Wed. and Thursday. Can't wait to see friends from Atlanta and hang out and cruise the mountain with them.

Day 44

Keystone, just cruised on the mountain today. Lost a couple of screws on my back binding. pretty interesting ride down the mountain to finish the day without any support from my rear high back, but i made it down and consider myself a better boarder because of it. Staying off of the mountains tomorrow, but I think Im going out on Sunday to ride with friends. Hope everyone has a good holiday weekend.

Day 43, Oh the green circles.

Keystone, trying to keep it fun I decided to do all of the green runs at Keystone today. Pretty fun time. I managed to accomplish my goal in about 3 hours, as there are not that many greens at Keystone. Lots of traversing and some cat tracks, but it was nice having a goal. Still no new snow, but there should be some next week. One more day on the mountain, then I'm letting the vacationers take over for the MLK weekend.

Day 42

Beaver Creek, No new snow. Rode all day at Batchelor Gulch and Arrowhead. Didnt head over to the main part of the mountain. Just cruising and exsploring the mountain, pretty fun day. Suppost to get some new snow tomorrow. I'll keep my fingers crossed. Starting to get excited about my Georgia friends that are comming up, the first on gets here in about a week, can't wait to show them my new found skills on the board.

Day 41

Keystone, made laps and stuck to the groomers today. With the lack of snow its like riding on concrete, so I am being careful to not hurt myself when I fall. Its tough to ride for more that 3 hours without getting bored, only a few runs have decent snow, so I try and stick on them and it gets old after awhile. I guess I have turned into one of those guys that is going to constantly whine about the snow quality.

Day 40

Breckenridge, Got back on the snow after the weekend. Headed to Breck, the snow was crusty and icy, about the opposite of what I rode on all last week at Vail. Just cruised on the groomers all day. I heard a mountain employee talking about how they are at about 40% of the snow that they usually have right now. Not sure how accurate that is, but I know we need some snow bad.

Day 39, kinda'

Vail, went up with intentions of riding all day. Yeah, that didn't happen so much. I guess after 6 straight days of riding your body just says no, your done. So I only got in a couple of hours on the mountain before I gave in to my body screaming at me to stop. I'm off the mountain by 11:30. I get to thinking that I could use a nice soak in a hot tub. Well there are plenty of those in the hotels at Vail, so I store my board and head to a the nearest hotel and change in the restroom and find a nice empty hot tub to soak in. Pretty easy to do, just need to act like you belong. I soaked for an hour, then headed over to Garfinkels for lunch and a few beers. Hope your friday was as good.

Day 38

Vail, got 6 inches overnight. Spend the day lapping the back bowls. Such a good day. Starting to get addicted to the powder. Top 3 of the year so far. Headed home to watch some football. Got some pics, hope you enjoy.

Looking off the back side of Vail.

Middle of WOW.

Looking off of Vail Bowls.

Day 37

Vail, headed to Blue sky off the bat today, spent about 3-4 hrs just floating in the powder before my legs gave. spent the later half of the day reading in the local bar. Pretty good day, looking for snow tonight. Back at Vail again tomorrow.

Day 36

Vail, rode the back bowls again today. Spent some time over in Blue Sky basin, such great snow. Learned a few things today.

1. I can do Moguls, in the powder

2. It hurts your neck when you land on your head.

3. You can indeed inhale snow.

Fun times all around.

Day 35

Keystone, went up this morning and made some runs. Its amazing how tired your legs can get from just one day of boarding in powder. I was only on the mountain a couple of hours before I got the jello legs today. I called it an early day. I came home and did some house works and decided to just rest for the day. Looking forward to getting back to Vail tomorrow or Wed. Hopefully we can get some more snow.

Day 34

Vail, just crushed it today! Got 8-10 inches on the mountain and headed up to ride with Taylor, Tizzle and Jeff. Learned that I ride like a stick figure, so they got me to bend my knees alot more than I was. Best advice that I could have gotten. Rode the back bowls after lunch, and its suprizing how much better and more aggressive you can be when you bend your knees. From the praise from my friends it looks like my progression as a boarder is coming along. Might head up to Keystone tomorrow and hike some of the back bowls, depending on the snow report. Today was one of those days that I envisioned when I decided to come up here. Can't wait to do it all again tomorrow.

Day 33

Keystone in the morning, got a few inches of snow, rode some blacks and did some moguls. Feeling well rested and confident after the break. The Denver crowds are starting to show up in droves on the weekends. Watching the worst football game ever. Looks like the old Alma Mater will loose yet another bowl game, but it could be worse. Hope everyone had a good New Years.