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It could potentially snow then..odds are you’ll be in the typical spring cycle where it begins as refrozen hardpack in the morning before transitioning to corn snow and then mashed potatoes.

Snow changes...

From Abasin today

Here’s a video I found on YouTube from the 15 inch pow day at Copper 4/7. Good song.

If I hadn’t have met Eaf I would have thought he was a troll.

Anytime you get powder days on ski trips is luck...they groom the main blue and green trails at Loveland everyday..the day after a powder day I’ll likely ski a combination of groomers, trees and ungroomed terrain. I’ll likely be on my shiros again due to the chop. Why would I be screwed if the trails are their natural state..I’m not a one trick pony. Thanks for the questions Eaf they were fun to answer.

4/9..Loveland..day five of six Hey All, I’m back from the fourth powder day in a row. Friday was a rider of the storm day at ABasin with several inches new, Saturday was a foot+ new at Copper, yesterday was another foot new at ABasin and today was a foot new at Loveland. The drive to Loveland took a few extra minutes with 20 degree temperatures and h why snowfall at the Eisenhower tunnel. I parked around the 6th row at Loveland a little before 8am..booted up, bought ticket for $75 and got in line at chair 1. A couple dozen people in front of me in line. Was cool seeing people getting face shots from the get go. I skied a random mainly untracked blue to the ptarmigan lift..snow was light and dry..yet still pretty beefy...managed untracked right under the ptarmigan lift down to chair 6 had some of the days best fresh skiers left of or chair 6 up chair 6 again and over to chair 9 which had recently opened I don’t think it opened until 930. I had deep untracked in the woods and two fresh runs in a row right under the lift. The flats at the top scared people off but I had plenty of momentum and scored some face shots right under the lift then some nice patches of fresh lower down. So good had to repeat I would have done it a third time but by then it was pretty tracked out so had to start exploring. I made my way back to the middle some traverses and some untracked..only real nasty skiing was one pow section over some moguls and I sent a mini cliff without even barely realizing it. Made my way back to chair one and guy I was riding it just arrived around 11 and he said it looked incredible pointing at the chowder under the lift. I’m too much of a pow hound I needed those early fresh runs.. i did did a couple hot laps off chair one..skied the same woods twice because there was so much fresh..even skied up areas skied a lot nicer than the heavier snow or previous days. It was in the teens up high and 20s low..alternating between snow and sunshine and very windy above tree line. Fourth pow day in a row and my legs were screaming around lunchtime so I skied back to my car. Smoked for the fifth or six time of the day then drove down to Silverthorne and got Wendy’s..I’m tired..probably take a nap..go to Murphy’s a final time tonight. Tomorrow either ski ABasin or Loveland then drive down into Denver where the expected high temperature is 72 degrees pretty nuts considering I’ve needed to use my ice scrapper and snow brush 4 days in a row.

I love the title!!!! Where I am now!!!

Awesome skiing so far. 7 untracked runs so far at Loveland. Just my way back to chair one and people are saying today is the best pow day of the season. Not many pictures today not very good visibility. I skied from lift one over to lift 9 and back to lift one. In some woods near the top of lift one now. Pretty tracked out now and a lot of people still arriving.

Maybe we’ll get the new trail for next season

I guess it snowed a little overnight.

Dumping again. Loveland cleared off their snowstake about an hour ago.

No I’d rather just buy it at the store. I worked in a brewery but in production..we would stack boxes of cases of beer for shipping. I had production experience from when I worked for Toms of Maine on the deodorant assembly line.

Skiing is only one of the many fun things I do. Most people don’t do much in the winter and we are always out there getting after it. I’ve actually spent a couple days the last few summers in Rehobath beach DE with family. I can’t complain about drinking 90 minute IPAs and eating lobster and ice cream.

This was a really good season at Blue...early opening..cold...several snowstorms..tons of good weekend and night skiing sessions and purder murder..

It’s because they are on the one pass..anyway two pow days in a row will bring the hounds out. Tomorrow will be more low key. Somebody at copper yesterday said there’s 1/2 an acre of powder for each person..I’m so happy I didn’t have to deal with the ticket window today. I’m sure the line for tickets was epic. Once all the lifts are running people spread out and even at 11am every seat is taken in the mid mountain lodge...then lines get a little shorter. Singles line isn’t that bad somebody complained there’s no singles line for the Pali double..aside from a pow day never much of a line there. Today was the most core Teton gravity esque crowd I’ve ever seen in Colorado...

Today was a powder day at ABasin..a huge powder day..the kind of day where people are doing yoga in the liftline...well that might be everyday out here. Already had my ticket 2 of 7 day from the other day parked 20 steps from picnic tables by Pali lift got into skis got in line. I was about the 5th row but there were a couple rows and it’s a double chair. A lot of avalanche bombs going off. Got on maybe 25th chair ended up skiing Pali face because many were going beyond that area or dropping in towards Lenawee. I had steep untracked nobody around I took a few pictures and down to the Pali lift it and the black mountain express had large lift lines at least early. Ten minute line for Pali chair and rode with a guy who has RV. He even showed me his rig from the lift. Next run skied a totally untracked face down to Lenawee was a welcome relief after first run which was powder panic. Took Lenawee up was surprised there was no one but they were operating Norway lift. Top of Lenawee took rope tow to montazuma that had just opened like 15 minutes before it was a gong show and people getting sendy. Hard to find a good place to piss people skiing all the woods. From the lift I eyed different lines best one was like 2/3 of the way down a traverse through an opening in a rope because to both sides was rocky. The traverse out was like cool boarders two most dropped off early or wiped out. I was able to get the untracked I saw from the lift and there was bonus freshies below..entertaining lift rides a lot of hoots and hollers. Just like the day before the powder settled quite a bit allowing lower angled untracked to be skied. I definitely skied pretty close to the edge to get some fresh poe. Every run I found some even if through a few trees. I skied lenawee some more found serious freshies on switchback type unofficial runs through the woods sort of like the mid mountain woods at copper everything is in play people will still be finding untracked tomorrow if they traverse a lot. I wanted to get food on the mountain but way way too crowded and saw that the mountain lion cafe was open until 2 so went there ate at the counter. Had Denver omelette and bacon and side of salsa they also refilled my coffee twice. tomorrow I’m either skiing Loveland or ABasin..Loveland pass was close this morning so the only people arriving were coming from the keystone side. Took people from Denver an extra 30-40 minutes at least. Somebody was real happy with my parking spot as people were parking 3 miles down the road weekend pow day it’s gonna happen. Looks like tomorrow morning could be light and dry pow will be colder overnight. I’m sure I’ll check the Loveland snow cam before and after I eat a French dip sang or a manly salad maybe with avacado at the Irish pub staggering distance away. Two nights ago I was there and it was snowing like a mofo..I stepped in a puddle like 4 inches deep...mad technical.

I used to mow back in the day. My parents house and at the tombstone company.

I’ll post some later trying to write a report before I’m Lit AF

I’m beat times six...right now heading from ABasin to Mountain Lyon cafe it’s open until 2PM....I still found a bit of fresh my last run had to actually ski uphill powder to get it. All three parking lots at ABasin filled up today really quick perhaps by 9am as I was near the pack of the closest lot before 8am...people were parked down the road near keystone when there are tons of empty spots in my row from all the people that got there at 745 and peaced our after the Perder got tracked out.

Looks Lit AF..the Mighty Mighty Bosstones are actually playing Copper mountain next weekend. I don’t know if you’re a fan of ska punk...

This thread went to shit. I actually think there’s a gardening thread.