Arapahoe Basin with SkiNEwhere 3/29/15

[jimk]

I'm close to wrapping up a nine week western ski trip. It's been great. I've met with AZ member SkiNEwhere for several fun ski days. Yesterday (Palm Sunday) was a great one at Arapahoe Basin. Despite reports of a mediocre winter in CO, there is still some great skiing out here and the friggin' sun comes out almost everyday making it super picturesque.
There was an inch or two of new snow when we first got there.

SkiNEwhere scoping out Zuma Cornice on the backside of the mtn. That's Keystone and Breck in near a far backgrd respectively.

Airing it out in Land of Giants.

SkiNEwhere hiked up and skied 2nd Notch up on the East Wall while I stayed below. It is center chute in this picture, very sketch this day. It's just to the right of the little group of people standing on the knoll in foreground.

SkiNEwhere dropping the cornice on Pali Face.

to be continued...

 

[jimk]

There was a crazy man skiing the mountain in a bikini for quite a while.


Doing the very cliffy West Turbo in the Pali section of the mtn.

Lower Pali Face?

Yours truly on Main Street. I carry the camera, he does the stunts;-)

 

[4aprice]

Jim: Great trip, would love to see a summary of what you hit, what you liked, disliked etc. Just got back from Utah myself and despite the doom and gloom the skiing was great and it was hard to get on that return flight. Wife agrees that maybe in 5 years we will do the one way trip.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[Domeskier]

Nine weeks? That's freakin' awesome! Great pics, BTW.

 

[jimk]

Jim: Great trip, would love to see a summary of what you hit, what you liked, disliked etc. Just got back from Utah myself and despite the doom and gloom the skiing was great and it was hard to get on that return flight. Wife agrees that maybe in 5 years we will do the one way trip.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

Thanks for positive feedback guys. If you google geezer ski bum you will see some of my reports on the trip. Either this spring or next fall I will put out a detailed summary. Couple of quickies: Breck has been the big eyeopener. I never skied there before this winter. Have now been about 7 times over two months and I had a great time every visit and have fallen in love with both ski area and town. Excellent mix of terrain and lots of it. It's had the best snow of any of the ten resorts in I've hit in CO, UT, CA, WY. CA was sad. I hope they rebound next year. Spent all of March in Summit County. Tons of warm sunny days. Terrific spring ski conditions from my easy to please mid-Atlantic perspective. Have met many very nice people like SkiNEwhere off internet ski forums that I partnered-up with and made my ski days much more rewarding.

 

[ciscokid]

Hey Jim, glad to see you survived and thrived. Had to join here to find you.

Surprised your son didn't join you or did I miss it?

Happy Easter!

 

[bigbog]

West Turbo in the Pali section of the mtn.

Beautiful stuff!!!
Finally got the snow this season, but not easy access to steep trees like that up here in Maine....
I did a lot of dreaming...inserting steeps and trees with spaces this last winter up here, off resort.