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| Top of Winter Park |
Last week was spring break, so once again the crew assembled
for our last trip of the ski season. Kyle, Tyler and I made the drive out to Kansas
City to pick up Chris. Our rendezvous
point was Cooper’s house, and being tradition, we all peeing on the side of his
house. From there, we continued west throughout the night, seeing our first glimpse
of sunlight over Berthood Pass.
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| Chris about drop into Eagle Wind |
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| He looks so tough |
We skied Winter Park Friday, mainly sticking to
the trees on the Eagle Wind side. Tyler, Chris and I were dropping pillows left
and right. That evening we drove over to Pam’s house to watch some basketball
and catch up. Saturday we made the drove down the 70 corridor towards Copper,
only to turn around because Chris had lost his wallet. Turns out it was in the
truck the whole time. Cooper, as always, was good, fast, long runs.
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| Copper's Back Side |
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| Copper Mtn. |
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| Kyle and I |
From Copper,
we drove North West to Steamboat, where we would spend the remaining days of our
trip. Christian also joined the group in steamboat, but had to fly back on Tuesday.
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| The Town of Steamboat |
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| Steamboat from the Top |
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| Chris and I |
Steamboat had true spring conditions; grass and mud were starting to show
through the snow. The days would start out icy and hard pack and by lunch it
was warm and slushy. Most days, I skied in only a base layer.
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| Strawberry Hot Springs |
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| Fish Pot Creek falls |
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| Some acorn home-run derby |
We walked around
town after skiing every day and made it up to strawberry Hot Springs one
evening. One morning I went for a drive and ended up on some windy mountain road. I saw a sign for a waterfall, so I parked the truck and started hiking. I end up at Fish Pot Creek Falls, mainly iced over but there was some water coming out. About half way through the trip, we finally saw a break in the weather
and copper got 4 inches of fresh snow.
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| Driving to Copper for the freshies |
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| Chris got up close and personal with the fresh snow |
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| Kyle loves him some Copper |
We all woke up at 6am to make the trek
down for the fresh snow. We even skied one night at steamboat, but didn’t last
long as we also skied during the day and our legs were dead. Overall, the trip was great, nothing like
skiing 8 days with your buddies in warm weather.
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| Night Skiing |
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| The crew |
Here are some picture from the
trip and nice video of Tyler styling a pillow. Enjoy, until the next adventure.
Tyler hitting a pillow from CEA Productions on Vimeo.
