I’ve always wanted to ski and envision doing some sort of grand ski tour one day. However, until recently I’ve lived really far from the slopes and never got proficient at the sport. Now that I live in Colorado, maybe that will change.
This evening, I attended the Backcountry Film Festival presentation at the Northern Hotel/Mountain Shop in Old Town Fort Collins. Well, at least for half of the presentation. I actually skipped out after the fourth film (out of seven). Despite leaving early, I came home with a few things: Continue reading »
Hooray for snow! Well, we’ve actually had below-normal levels of it this winter in Fort Collins (just three days of it this season so far), but the mountains have had some healthy doses of it. So today (Friday), I headed out to Eldora Mountain Park to do mostly downhill skiing. I chose Eldora because it is reasonably close and their pre-season lift ticket rates (which ended Friday) were only $45 for an adult. Continue reading »
“The next time it snows,” I told a friend a few weeks ago after the first snow of the season, “I am going to have to take advantage of it.”
I made good on that promise on the other day. On Monday night, we got about four or five inches of some of the fluffiest powder I have ever seen, so during Tuesday afternoon, I went out of the garage on my K2 Shuskan randonnée (alpine touring) skis. Literally. The first downhill slope was the driveway! Continue reading »
On Friday morning I bolted out of bed and looked out the nearest window. The grass in the back yard — whose yellow and green colors were exposed just a few days ago — was once again replenished with a thin coating of white powder that had accumulated the day before. Many Front Rangers were probably looking at the same snow and rolling their eyes in disgust, wondering when the record-breaking Siberian winter would end. I on the other hand was actually welcoming it. Continue reading »
