Peeing in the woods: Spring Break 2015

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.

Chris about drop into Eagle Wind

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.

Copper's Back Side

Copper Mtn.

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.

The Town of Steamboat

Steamboat from the Top

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.

Strawberry Hot Springs

Fish Pot Creek falls

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.

Driving to Copper for the freshies

Chris got up close and personal with the fresh snow

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.