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Ok. Dont worry I'm getting after it! Did Atomic find any alternate flights? There should be a lot of options in New York.

Woke up with a sore throat and feeling like a cold is coming on. Mother Fudger! Took 2 Zicam and drank a ton of fluids. Hopefully it's nothing but got a bad feeling. If it develops I'll be taking lots of ibuprofen and Sudafed but doing anything physical with fatigue is the worst.

Well looks like I made it. My RTMs are in the background. Made sure to lock them up since they're the most popular ski in Winter Park. Lots of fresh perder, 2 or 3 inches dumped overnight. I was complaining the whole time cleaning the snow off the rental car (just kidding!!!)

Hope conditions hold up. At least it's supposed to get cold again. I'd love to ski Stowe again but got spoiled last year when it snowed every day I was there... hahaha

Thank @theprogram4! Less than 14 hours to go. It looks like I'm going to get dumped on Wednesday!

Same. I usually read threads from bottom to top so I saw the Xray before the warning.

This looks great but I forgot to pack a speedo.

When's your first day at Jackson Hole? No stoke thread? Maybe I'll drive up one day to do a run with you. It's only 7 hours and 40 minutes away.

I'm amazed at how inexpensive Winter Park is and the availability of hotels. It seems if you go midweek nonholiday there is absolutely positively no reason to book a nonrefundable reservation. I learned my lesson the hard way.. If it snows a lot I might do 3 days at Winter Park and 1 day at Copper. Dont want to drive in the snow unless I have to. Want to do Copper because it's by the Eisenhower Tunnel which I've always thought is very cool.

I thought it was funny. I always like to take a day just to relax and get my bearings.

Winter Park Mountain Lodge. Mapping out the groomers. I want to try some ungroomed but not if it's up to my neck, lol...

Candlewood by the airport. Got to ride the Cabaret... just like Mountain Creek! Not skiing just sitting by the window watching people ski, studying the trail map and drinking free water.

Currently observing democracy in person. This is fun!

That's the year Atomic and I were born. The mint was cool, they handled out free samples ($0.02). Typing this from the Capitol building, maybe ill do a tour here also before heading up to the mountains. A lot of hippies and pot around.

Going on a tour of the mint in 2 minutes. Always wanted to go and finally have the opportunity. Skiing Winter Park the next 2 days and it's supposed to dump !!!

I'm glad you guys talked me into the SUV. It's supposed to snow mid week (!) and driving around the snow in a compact would have caused me a lot of stress. I went with the Payless reservation you found on Orbitz.

Flying with ski equipment was really easy. I decided on the SUV and got a nearly brand new Subaru Outback with only 1K miles and AWD. Never had heated seats before and didnt figure out how to turn it off yet, so my back starts to get sweaty. This is great!!!

Sorry to hear that Antman. Hope you heal quickly.

Thanks Toast! This will be my 4th time in Colorado and I'll finally be on skis. Kept putting it off so I wouldn't become jaded like you say, but life's too short and like Steeze said in a meme, if I dont do it this year I'll be another year older when I do. I'll be sure to write a report and post a pic or 2.

At KPHL, will be at KDEN in only 6 hours. Thanks to everyone who made it happen. Honorable mentions: Enjorales - lent me ski bag Steeze - provided tireless hours of pro bono ski travel consulting Ridge - recommended Winter Park Toast - recommended putting boots in carry on Atomic - called me a "chode" when I was contemplating backing out (thanks for the encouragement) Jlaw - made the final decision for me yesterday on the Challenge Express after I provided him an executive summary of my debacle ...and many many others

I am sold on this idea. Great suggestion, thanks Ridge. I'll go to Winter Park 2 days, and it might even snow on Wednesday. It would be great to get above the tree line and check out this area, and not worry about falling down a chute or into a crevice or anything (hopefully):

Correct. Best time I had skiing this season. I think it was because I finally got a wax and edge and was actually skiing better than usual.

Lol I'm still here, been skiing nonstop since going back out from the break. Made 20 runs total. The VIP line is amazing today, I never had to wait more than 1-2 minutes and the line for non passholders is the longest I've personally ever seen it. Conditions are still decent; the top of Sidewinder is amazingly good still. The lower half is icy as hell. It appears someone got critically injured at the bottom of Sidewinder. It looked like he couldn't stop at the bottom of Sidewinder and fell down the embankment that goes to Lower Sidewinder (?). Hope he's ok, didnt look good.

Aaah so nice out this morning, but what is this at 8:45? No 4 pack (quad) is such a drag.

Deciding on rental. I can always do something like this (and I'll only have one pair of RTM 81s):