Out 8:30 to 12:30 with coffee at Mid-Vail; warm and sunny with no wind and temps rising into the forties; 12 runs; 16,478 vertical; skied the 2019 Head i.Speed GS Cheater 17's; firm groomers quickly softening in the brilliant sunshine; the crowd for Vail on a Saturday was very, very manageable - stuck to the front side and only passed on the Mountaintop Express because of the long line; a half dozen Born Free curisers before we left; Bob day 3.
Out 8:30 to 2:30 with coffee and lunch at the Spruce Saddle Lodge; sunny and warm with a little wind and temps rising into the forties; 16 runs; 21,648 verticl; skied the Volkl M5 Mantras; groomers early, all sorts of stuff later; lots of people, but this was BC so no lift lines; after lunch I skied the Men's Birds of Prey Downhill Course - those guys are nuts to do that at speed even if it is flat when they do it; Bob Day 2.
Out 9:15 to 12:45 with a coffee break at Pioneer Crossing; 2" overnight - windy and warm with temps in the twenties and heavy snow till around 11:30 - 2 or 3" more this AM; 7 runs; 9,746 vertical; skied the Volkl Kendos; powder and packed powder; fair number of people, but never a lift line; Bob Day 1.
Out 9:45 to noon with a quick bathroom break in the Vista Haus; sunny, warm and very windy with temps in the thirties; 8 runs; 12,057 vertical; skied the 2019 Head i.Speed GS Cheaters; wind blown groomers mostly; lots of people, but no real liftlines; hit Kensho and the T-Bar, but the wind on Imperal looked vicious so I passed; totally recovered from the rib injury.
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Out 8:30 to 12:45 with lunch at the Two Elk Lodge; another inch overnight - cloudy with temps in the twenties and virtually no wind; 12 runs; 17,205 vertical; skied the 2019 Head i.Speed GS Cheater 17's; groomers - plenty of other terrain was open, but it looked way to thin to ski without hitting something; Friday before a holiday means a really big crowd; Born Free, Pickeroon and Columbine were all very nice; took a bad spill right after lunch and had to quit; broke down and retired the Lange RS World Cup ZBs, finally started using the Nordica Doberman 5 Ss.
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Out 9:00 to 10:45 no break; 1" new snow overnight - clouds up and down, snow on and off with temps in the twenties and little to no wind this morning; 8 runs; 8,450 vertical; skied the Nordica Enforcer 88's; very few people; left when I went in and there were no bathrooms open - okay my right foot was killing me too; Pali and Beavers, but no Montezuma.
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Out 9:00 to 12:45 with lunch at Lunch Rock; snow on the drive in with flurries all day and temps in the twenties; 16 runs; 18,551 vertical; skied the Volkl Kendos; this morning's dust on crust covered all the crap - no snow here either; lots of people, but no lift lines.
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Out 9:00 to 12:45 with a quick coffee break; this morning's cloud inversion morphed into a light snow by the time I left - temps around 30° with no wind; 17 runs; 21,069 vertical; skied the Volkl Kendos; some firm groomers and a little crunchy styrofoam; very light crowd; some nice snowmaking trails off the Corona lift - Corona, Wolf Tougue, Alpenhorn, and Mule Shoe; zero snow on the ground from just below the tunnel on I-70 and up CO-119 all the way to Nederland.
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Out 8:30 to 10:30 no break; sunny, warm and still - temps quickly rising toward freezing; 12 runs; 17,609 vertical; skied the Volkl Kendos; firm groomers; big Friday crowd - quit when it got really crowded;
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Out 8:30 to 12:30 with a lunch break at Duke's in Center Village; sunny with temps quickly rising above freezing with no wind; 8 runs; 11,783 vertical; skied the 2019 Head i.Speed GS Cheater 17's; firm groomers; pretty big crowd for a Thursday; skied with Marc Brumbaugh and friends today; we ran NASTAR - 26 hcp - gold; right boot is a problem again :( .
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Knocking off the rust this morning; out 8:30 to 11:00 without a break; clear and cool with temps in the teens and absolutly no wind; 9 runs; 11,539 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; not very crowded at all; just enough new snow overnight to soften the groomers a little; Hombre off 6 Chair was very good - lots of new snow and just shallow enough pitch so that it wasn't totally scraped off underneath.
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