Day 44 - Vail

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 saomething; 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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Day 43 - Arapahoe Basin

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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Day 42 - Winter Park

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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Day 41 - Eldora

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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Day 40 - Keystone

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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Day 39 - Copper

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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Day 38 - Breckenridge

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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Day 37 - Mad River Mountain

Out noon to 2:00; heavy overcast with temps in the fifties; 13 runs; 3,675 vertical; skied my brand new 2025 Atomic Redster G9 RS Revoshocks; bottomless mashed potatoes; very few other people;

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Day 36 - Laurel Mountain

Did a couple hours before it started to rain; cloudy with temps near fifty; 11 runs, 7,600 vertical; skied the Blizzard Bonafides; the snow was soft and wet; a few people, but I rode the chair single every time; very nice little ski hill; definately coming back here to ski again.

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