Sunday, March 10, 2013

Winter Wonderland

We've been pretty busy the last month or so, mostly with skiing and snowboarding! It's been exactly what I imagined living in Colorado would be like. Getting lots of great snow, and going to the hills as much as possible.
The two main hills that we've been hitting up are Copper Mountain and Winter Park. We've had some great days at both places (if you forget about the terrible traffic going through Denver).
Winter Park
A couple weeks ago we went up to Steamboat Springs for a few days, and had a blast! We were surprised by a dumping of fresh powder on our first day. It was so light and fluffy! Then the next morning we woke up to another 10 inches! We were hitting some untouched runs, knee-deep in snow! It was awesome. By the third day, we were pretty wiped and there was no fresh snow (we had gotten quite spoiled by this time) so we made a day of skiing our way from bar to bar on the hill. There happened to be a rugby match on at the last lodge, so we camped out there until closing time! All in all, a great time!
Fresh Powder at Steamboat Springs

Steamboat


I hadn't even gotten fully unpacked from that trip, when Ty's friend invited us on a  Summit Hut trip to do some back country skiing/riding! We, of course, jumped at the opportunity! I finally got to test out my new snowshoes! We drove out to the Breckenridge area where we parked and hiked to the cabin with all our gear on our backs. It was about a 40 minute hike uphill. We shared the cabin with a group of about 20 people. It was a great time. All three days there were spent trekking out to the surrounding hills to do some back country riding. This was my first back country experience. Being at 11,360 ft altitude in a foot of fresh snow, the 20 minutes of hard work it takes to get to the top sort of overpowers the fun you have in the 30 seconds it takes to ride down. But those 30 seconds are still a lot of fun! By the third trip down, I'm thinking "that was fun, I wanna do it again.... But there's no way I'm climbing up there again." Then at the end of the trip we got to ride back down the trail to our car!
Snowshoeing with the board on my back pack

Gorgeous views

All our tracks

1 comment:

  1. Woohoo, welcome back Canadian in Colorado! We've missed you. This looks absolutely stunning. Also I can't wait for garden updates too! Hopefully the green thumb will prove to be genetic. That website one works for American zip codes, LAME.

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