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Breckenridge. 2/12/17

dlague

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Conditions: PP with 6 inch powder stashes.

Unfortunately, we have been hitting a run of once per weekend of skiing. Saturday was supposed to be my sons glider lessons but they got canceled due to strong winds. Since it was kind of too late to go skiing we opted to go hiking. The place we chose was Eagles Peak a black rated behind the Airforce Academy. You ask why I am mentioning this. Well, the trail goes from 7300 ft to 9300 ft in elevation in a mile and a half and it kicked our asses. Not from a breathing perspective but our knees and quads were wiped. We planned to ski the next day even with sore legs. It had been warmer in fact it was 70 degrees in Colorado Springs yet it snowed 3-6 inches in the mountains. Gotta love it.

We headed out earlier and arrived at 9:30. We decided immediately that we would ski Peak 10 since we enjoyed it there last time and it delivered again. We only skied one bump run (Corsair) but our legs were still hurting so that ended that desire. However, it had very nice bumps that were well shaped and very well spaced with nice soft snow. We ended up skiing four more runs skied on Cimarron, Double Jack, Centennial, and Crystal. Each if these had really nice pitch and pitch changes. These are groomed trails but they left the 3-6 natural and it was covered with a nice dry snow that makes the runs perfect. You could haul. Cimarron dumps on to a traverse to get back. After those runs, we were sweating and needed a beverage and ended up skiing Double Jack to the trail under Quick Silver lift. That is a long run on tired legs. We ate at Copper Top which is priced well for a Vail Resort since the restaurant is not owned by Vail.

Our plan after lunch was to ski runs on each of the Peak areas with an ultimate goal to ski Peak 6. We went over on the Peak 8 Super Connect which has a weird mid pick up point. We saw a run that we thought about skiing since it looked like a really nice bump run - Mach 1 but decided otherwise. From Peak 8 we thought we were on a traverse (Path Finder) to get to Peak 7 but ended up on Northstar that lead us to the base of Peak 8. Northstar was a very nice cruiser that was slightly bumped out around pitch changes. We then went up on the Colorado Super Quad and were able to ski over to Peak 6.

At Peak 6 the Zendo Lift is super slow but we needed to take it to get to Kensho Lift. We lapped Kensho Lift for a few runs before we started feeling tired. Skiing the bowl up there is really nice with powder bumps and chop. There were some tracked out grooves across the trail that were hard to see due to flat light. Did not care for that. Our last run to the base of Peak 7 seemed long once again. Along the way we cut into the woods off and on and made it very interesting. Skiing back we skied under Zendo Lift and that too was cool due to lots of rollers to catch air on. We closed out the day with a final cruiser on Peak 7 down Pioneer. We then took the Gondola back to town and ate at The Canteen - a local hang out.

Our legs were toast that night into Monday but the whole weekend was worth it.

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