Day 103

Breckenridge,

Slush, Slush and more Slush. Temp got to around 50 degrees today. Had a good time just cruising and hitting the jumps in the park. Pretty good day, Looking forward to the snow the weatherman has promised the next couple of days.

Day 102

Keystone,

Headed up this morning with Jeff and Tizzle. Just cruising around the mountain again. It was pretty warm, snow is getting slushy, looks like i will have to break out the warm weather way for the rest of the season. Great day of riding with the friends.

Day 101

Keystone,

Just cruised the mountain with Taylor. Nothing to great, bluebird day. Just a nice laid back day.

The Rundown

Ok, here is the stats for the season thru 100 days

A-Basin = 5 Days

Keystone = 37 Days

Breckenridge = 11 Days

Vail = 34 Days

Steamboat = 2 Days

Beaver Creek = 10 Days

Wolf Creek = 1 Day

So looking at these numbers it appears that I really Like Keystone and Vail, there is some truth to this. I really love Vail. Its such a big mountain and so much different terrain. Keystone is great for just cruising around and it is the closest resort to my house. I would ride Beaver Creek more, but it is the furthest away from my house and Vail is on the way.

DAY 100!!!!!!

Vail,

So i actually made my goal of 100 days this season. Ive had a blast and I think I should get 10-15 more days depending on the weather. Today was a great powder day at Vail. They got 10" over night so I got there early and was about the 20th person on the mountain. I did a few warm up laps in the North Woods then headed over to my favorite spot, Blue Sky Basin. I made laps back there for 2-3 hours mostly in the trees and under the chair lift. Ive become a little pit of an attention whore on powder days, rocking jumps and powder turns under the lift. The trees were great, parts were knee deep powder. My Mp3 played got to cold on one run and decided to shut down, so I rode thru the trees with no music, It was so cool, just me and nature, not another sole in the trees. After the lift line got unbearably long, I headed over to the front side and made a few laps in the trees above North Woods, then headed for the bus. It snowed all day, so tomorrow shold be a great day as well.

Day 99

Keystone,

Just cruised aroung the mountain all day waiting for the snow. It started snowing around 1 and we got about 2 inches on the mountain, Its suppost to continue most of the night with a total of 4-6 inches. We will see in the morning if the weatherman is correct.

Day 98

Keystone,

Rode all morning, headed for the outback, searching for the leftover powder from the last storm. Got 3-4 good runs in before I went to the front. Just made laps around the mountain, some cruisers, some in the park, hitting the jumps and boxes. Very cold this morning, but It warmed up a bit and softened the snow. Another round of storms is suppost to hit tomorrow afternoon and night, so if my luck holds I will be at Vail on Saturday with some powder for Day 100. Almost there.

Day 97

Vail,

Got 5" overnight. I headed up and got on the mountain at 8:30. Rode the frontside until it got pretty tracked out. Then meet Jeff and rode the back bowls a little and some trees on the front side. My new boots are so great, they actually give me the proper support. All in all a great day on the mountain. Got home and shoveled 6" of heavy snow off of the drive, bit of a workout. Im a bit tired right now.

Day 96

Keystone,

Just went up for half of a day. I got new boots yesterday, so I went up to break them in. Took about 8 runs and started to back them out pretty good. Suppost to get a decent storm this afternoon and tonight, so hoping for a powder day tomorrow.

Day 95

Vail,

Headed straight to Bluesky again. Just pounded the trees all day. Alot of left over powder. Got some pretty cool pics.

Looking North off of the saddle at Blue Sky

Now Entering the EuroStash the greatest snow at Vail. In the Trees off of Heavy Metal in BlueSky.

Day 94

Vail,

Caught the 3rd chair to the back bowls, headed over to Bluesky Basin. Rode till about noon, another great powder day, had a great day. Just a bit tired, looks like I will be taking tomorrow of to recoup from the powder riding, the legs are pretty worker right now.

Day 93 POWDER!!!!!

Vail,

Got up and checked the snow report at 6, and it said Vail got 1" overnight. That kinda bummed us out, but we decided to go anyway. So we pull into the parking lot and there is 4"-5"on the ground and its dumping. Apparently it snowed 3"-4" from 6 to 7:30. We (Taylor and myself) got 3rd chair and rode till our legs fell off. It snowed til about 10 and overall there was about 7"-8"on the day. We spent all day on the front side, because the back was closed due to high winds, which is great, cause there will be some nice snow back in the bowls and in bluesky basin tomorrow. Really fun day and im pretty worked right now.

Day 92

Vail/Beaver Creek,

Rode with Taylor and Jeff. Started just cruising the mountain. Headed over th BC to hit the park, learned to slide the boxes today. Slushy snow, weatherman is calling for snow the next 2 days. Yeah!!!!!!!!

Day 91

Keystone, Rode with Taylor all day, slushy "oh we did the damn thing" Taylor M. Good day bright and sunny. Looking for some snow, but not finding it.

Day 90

Beaver Creek,

Just killed it with the roomates, hiked pipe and 1/4 pipe all day. Yeah I said I HIKED. So Im real tired, but it looks like thats the way the rest of the season might go, unless we get some more snow.

Day 89

Breckenridge,

Rode with Katie, Berto and Taylor all day. Spring break is here, I'm learning to not like folks from Texas, they think they own the mountain, and the lift lines are so long. Looks like this is going to be the norm for a couple of weeks. We hiked the pipe for a couple of hours then just cruised the mountain. Pretty good day. Looks like the same thing tomorrow.

Day 87 and 88

Vail, both days. Rode alone on the first day, got 3" just stayed to the front side and exsplored a litle bit. Pretty good day. Meet up with Michael and Heather from Steamboat the next day and rode with them and some of their friends. Nothing to great, but it was sweet to ride with some folks for a change, It gets kind of boring riding alone, but thats the sacrafice that must be made. Going to do some snowshoeing today so I hope to have some good pics up tomorrow.

Day 86

Vail,

Bluesky all day long, just killed the trees, spent the day searching for left over powder with The Captain. Yeah we found it. Looks like that its my favorite area at vail, the trees in blue sky. Heading back over their tomorrow, should be pretty good.

Day 85

Vail,

Got 3" on the mountain. Spent the morning in blue sky, and just cruised in the afternoon. So tired. Im done .

Day 84

Sunday Funday, Keystone.

Yeah rode with the whole crew today. Taylor,Cody, Tizzle, Me, Berto, and some random folks that we met on the hill, and in the bar. Rode from 10 to 6 such a fun day. I'll let the pics tell the story.

Tizzle, Cody, Taylor, at breakfast.

Lunch

The Crew

I got nothin'

Storm rollin' in.

Day 83

Vail/Keystone, Vail got 4" so I headed over in the morning, spent about 3 hours just cruising and hitting the trees in blue sky basin. Went over to do some night riding at Keystone with Berto, Taylor and Cody. Good to get up on the mountain with some friends.

Day 82

Keystone, just cruising the mountain again. Waiting on more snow. Suppost to get 5-7" tonight at Vail, so I will be over there tomorrow. Looks like the El'nino thing has yet to show up, so we are just getting hit and miss storms unlike the great dumps that the weather man said was comming. I still don't like him. Booooooo

Day 81

Keystone, just cruised around on the mountain for half a day. Nothing to big, weather was bluebird, and warm. Made for some soft slushy springtime snow. Good day.

Day 80 paying the price for adventure.

Keystone, 6" of powder. So far this year I have been improving steadily. Went out today and decide to put the skills to the test. Time to go all out, no brains, bombing the hill, crushing the trees checking up as little as possible. Well it was awesome. Went straight to the outback at Keystone and bombed a couple of runs to start the day. Then I headed for the trees, So much fun with 6" and some small moguls to hit jumps in the trees. Just crushed it for about 3 hours, Then I paid the price. So I'm in the trees just cruising ducking in and out, when I notice that the tracks i have been following are gone, and its just me in the trees and the powder is getting deeper and deeper. Well lets just say I got a bit in over my head. Powder up to the middle of my belly, no momentum, dead stuck CRAP!!!!! I decide to unstrap and walk out. Yeah good luck with that, so after 1 hour of postholing up to my belly I find a cat track, then head to the parking lot, done for the day. Yeah on top of the powder nightmare, I think I might have sprained my left wrist, hurts like hell to rotate it, so it looks like I'll be sporting the wrist brace the rest of the season. Well, lesson learned. If your going to be adventurous you will get in over your head on occasions.