Colorado 2020-2021 Colorado Weather and Stoke (and beer)

[Tex]

Another glorious day in winter park. Spring skiing at its best, this afternoon in the 40’s, snow is great girls skiing in bikini tops, guys in shorts, snowboards in their fun outfits.

I buy 2 of these at once at Mary Jane, I know from experience 1 won’t getter done. I crush those beer cans against my head, and if you don’t believe me I’ll post a video.



This is real ski lift operator, the ones that climb the poles and are always dirty. You can see him in pic below at the top, stuck on this lift what seemed 45 minutes but this guy got it going. It’s cool, I worked on my sun tan.



Shots top of panaramic, awesome

 

[Phelmut]

"I crush those beer cans against my head, and if you don’t believe me I’ll post a video."

I'll take your word for it on that, but would much rather see a video of said chicks in bikinis

 

[Noodler]

I stuffed myself on corn today. More specifically, corn bumps. Just....so....much....fun... The worst part of the early end to last season was losing the Spring skiing. Man I missed this...

 

[Tex]

My last day of the season, and what a great ender at Mary Jane. I woke up this morning hoping Sleeper was groomed, and the snow gods graced me with Sleeper and Derailer. There was smoke coming off my ski edges today. Challenger lift rocks, no lines!!





When I ski bummed here in the early 80’s, this was out of bounds, we used to ski “the chutes” down to the road and hitch back up to challenger lift. Not sure why it is closed, I guess avalanche? We never worried about that in the 80’s, we are lucky, the snow gods watched over us.

 

[Doug Briggs]

I don't see the can imprint, @Tex. I, too, like the Voodoo Ranger. The Imperial version is killer, too.

Yesterday and today were DH at Cooper. Glorious weather: warm, sunny and little wind.

This morning's view from the start:



My skis for the day.

The morning ride up.

Yesterday I shot video so got two runs in. The first was fast, the second (during the last run of the day) not so much. I redeemed myself today with 3 times within 4 tenths of each other. My middle name is consistent.


Boy that mountain is Massive!

 

[Doug Briggs]

I forgot the morning sky...

I carpooled with a friend and competitor. I would have gotten up later if not for that so would have missed this beautiful view.

 

[tball]

I woke up this morning hoping Sleeper was groomed, and the snow gods graced me with Sleeper and Derailer.

Oh, those poor harmless bumps on Derailer. Horrifying. Stop the brutal grooming!

 

[Tex]

Oh, those poor harmless bumps on Derailer. Horrifying. Stop the brutal grooming!

Grooming black runs is no easy task, the groomers that do this work don’t get enough credit. Carving on black groomed don’t get much better.

 

[tball]

Grooming black runs is no easy task, the groomers that do this work don’t get enough credit. Carving on black groomed don’t get much better.

They can groom the crap out of the Winter Park side all they like. The Jane is a special place for bumps. Only the Jane trail and Sleeper are to be groomed. Bad juju on Alterra for grooming Derailer. It's a bump run and should stay that way. Always.

Edit: and way to really screw up Frenchman by running a cat track through it. Great idea to funnel a bunch of people to the Jane that can't ski bumps. Boo.

 

[Noodler]

They can groom the crap out of the Winter Park side all they like. The Jane is a special place for bumps. Only the Jane trail and Sleeper are to be groomed. Bad juju on Alterra for grooming Derailer. It's a bump run and should stay that way. Always.

Edit: and way to really screw up Frenchman by running a cat track through it. Great idea to funnel a bunch of people to the Jane that can't ski bumps. Boo.

You gotta wonder where these kinds of decisions are coming from. The fastest way to screw up the best bumps on the planet is to allow a bunch of bad bumpers onto those runs.

 

[ZeeJM]

They're hard at work at the mogul farm at Keystone: ;-

 

[nay]

Closing day for the first batch today. Spring skiing for all!

 

[Ken_R]

You gotta wonder where these kinds of decisions are coming from. The fastest way to screw up the best bumps on the planet is to allow a bunch of bad bumpers onto those runs.

Most skiers hate moguls. That is fact. That is why Vail got so popular. They even groom one or two runs on each bowl. The best bump runs are the ones that have at least one bump free option down that way all the bad skiers and boarders are not screwing up the bumps.

 

[Snowflake2420]

Beautiful, easy going closing day at Wolf Creek. Quickly becoming one of my favorite mountains.

 

[Noodler]

Most skiers hate moguls. That is fact. That is why Vail got so popular. They even groom one or two runs on each bowl. The best bump runs are the ones that have at least one bump free option down that way all the bad skiers and boarders are not screwing up the bumps.

Actually what we often see happen is that if there's an obvious "escape valve", bad bumpers will venture in and out of the mogul field, cutting horrible traverse lines across the slope. At MJ, you have beautiful perfect bump lines from edge to edge down the slopes with no outlet. Just the way it should be...

 

[Doug Briggs]

Saturday the course was really firm and smooth. Whereas times on Friday were into the 58s, we started in the 55s. Timing of turns was radically different and exciting. I was one of the 55s in the opening training run and 4th overall in both race runs, 2nd and first in class. All in all a good day. I was within 1 second in the first race and 1.2 in the second. Not as close as I'd like to be, but not bad for 63 y.o. racing 30 and 40 y.o.

Today we had a 'surprise' forerunner. Can you tell who? Of course you can. I put her name in the title.


She was 'roaring' with the RMM's president's 2 y.o. daughter in the finish, I'm told.

We are grateful for Franz Fuxburger arranging for her to forerun the races.




Pre-run stretching.

 

[Doug Briggs]

Oh, and I was chief cat herder at the start.


I neglected to get a photo on the mountain but dressed back up for the record.

Sarah had a 'steal your face' sticker on her helmet from her dad's shop. I had a 'steal your face' pin a friend gave me a while back. Long live the Dead.

 

[Doug Briggs]

They're hard at work at the mogul farm at Keystone: View attachment 130274 ;-

Next year I'll be able to watch a similar 'mogul' patch burn from my back yard.

 

[Wannabeskibum]

It was well worth the trip from Boston - been skiing here at Breck since Friday. Saturday was hot - no cloud cover and the sun was working its magic all over the mountain. Had some delightful cream cheese runs in Whales Tale & Vertigo and off of Peak 6 - Amen was sublime. In the afternoon enjoyed Windows 2. Today, with the partly cloudy skies, it took until 11 am for the alpine to soften, but in the meantime we enjoyed several groomers and Amen before heading up Imperial to do Imperial bowl, whales tail, vertigo. After lunch tiger woods didn’t disappoint and Windows 2 then Windows 5 were a delight. Finished the day on Peak 10 with several runs in the Burn and trees between corsair and spit fire then some zoomers down Centennial, Double Jack, and Crystal. Finished today with about 29.4K of vertical and had I known I was that close to 30K, I would have squeezed in another run. Monday will spend some time with @Doug Briggs before catching an evening flight back to Boston.

 

[Seldomski]

We're looking at doing a trip to Breck this month (during late April) or early May. But I'm having trouble figuring out what lifts are closing when, what shuttle service exists this late, and how late the breck connect gondola runs. I would call Breck, but that would be a fruitless exercise given past experience with Vail call centers.

Has any of this been announced? Anyone have a good link to this information?

Found this for shuttles, but it doesn't elaborate on when "Winter" ends. https://www.breckfreeride.com/routes-schedules
I couldn't find on the Breck website any spring/late season operation details.