dlague
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Keystone
Conditions: Firm in the morning and softer in the afternoon.
Based on our experience on Friday where things were fast and hard. We decided to skip Sarturday and thought Sunday would be a beter play. We also decided to get to Loveland around 10 with hopes that things would start to soften up. We were a bit concerned about traffic but that issue never materialized and we arrived a bit earlier. Good thing! Turns out all of Lovelands parking was packed - the huge front lot and the lot at Loveland Valley. With literally no place to park, we continued over Loveland Pass over to A Basin and as we approached the upper lots were FULL. Went to the pay for parking area and that was FULL we proceeded to the Beach parking and that too was FULL and they were having people park in an overflow lot 3 miles away. So that was a no go. We then decided to give it one more shot and went to Keystone - turns out they were not busy. That was weird. Asking one of the parking attendents why, he said that there are several Seasons Passes that are combined with Keystone, however on those passes Keystone is blacked out. The result, Loveland and A Basin get busy.
Due to the lower volume almost every lift was ski on ski off. We worked our way to the Outback as we did on Friday and tried to ski a bump run there but it was still a little sketchy - better than Friday but it was like bumps with death cookies. My wife did not even consider it and thought we were stupid for giving it a try. There have been discussion here regarding frozen bumps but skiing a teeth chattering bump run does not have any appeal to me. Fast is more fun on firm trails IMO. So that is what we did.
Everything was pretty firm for the first several runs and then got softer as the temps climbed. had a similar approach to the day as we did on Friday. Considered doing a bump run towards the end but our legs were destroyed. We ski a lot of runs on the front side and basically skiing off River Run Gondola or Summit Lift serves up runs that are 2+ miles long - we even skied the easy 3.5 mile trail for the fun of it (never again - to many beginners and too many yellow jackets). You can definitely crank out some vert there.
Basically skied:
Starfire, Last Alamo, Prospector on North Peak
Wild Irishman, Frenchmen, Flying Dutchman, Paymaster, Spring Dipper, Sante Fe, Mozart on Dercum
Elk Run and Porcupine on Outback
Conditions: Firm in the morning and softer in the afternoon.
Based on our experience on Friday where things were fast and hard. We decided to skip Sarturday and thought Sunday would be a beter play. We also decided to get to Loveland around 10 with hopes that things would start to soften up. We were a bit concerned about traffic but that issue never materialized and we arrived a bit earlier. Good thing! Turns out all of Lovelands parking was packed - the huge front lot and the lot at Loveland Valley. With literally no place to park, we continued over Loveland Pass over to A Basin and as we approached the upper lots were FULL. Went to the pay for parking area and that was FULL we proceeded to the Beach parking and that too was FULL and they were having people park in an overflow lot 3 miles away. So that was a no go. We then decided to give it one more shot and went to Keystone - turns out they were not busy. That was weird. Asking one of the parking attendents why, he said that there are several Seasons Passes that are combined with Keystone, however on those passes Keystone is blacked out. The result, Loveland and A Basin get busy.
Due to the lower volume almost every lift was ski on ski off. We worked our way to the Outback as we did on Friday and tried to ski a bump run there but it was still a little sketchy - better than Friday but it was like bumps with death cookies. My wife did not even consider it and thought we were stupid for giving it a try. There have been discussion here regarding frozen bumps but skiing a teeth chattering bump run does not have any appeal to me. Fast is more fun on firm trails IMO. So that is what we did.
Everything was pretty firm for the first several runs and then got softer as the temps climbed. had a similar approach to the day as we did on Friday. Considered doing a bump run towards the end but our legs were destroyed. We ski a lot of runs on the front side and basically skiing off River Run Gondola or Summit Lift serves up runs that are 2+ miles long - we even skied the easy 3.5 mile trail for the fun of it (never again - to many beginners and too many yellow jackets). You can definitely crank out some vert there.
Basically skied:
Starfire, Last Alamo, Prospector on North Peak
Wild Irishman, Frenchmen, Flying Dutchman, Paymaster, Spring Dipper, Sante Fe, Mozart on Dercum
Elk Run and Porcupine on Outback
