Every bachelor party should be a day out riding powder with a bunch of bros! We celebrated Beau's bachelor up in Avon on Friday drinking beer and playing cards. On Saturday, 12 of us headed over to Steamboat and rode a half day at the resort and then had an epic day on Sunday with Steamboat Powdercats:
I highly recommend Steamboat Powdercats. The are an A+ operation! We got at least 12 runs of untracked lines. I'll be using these guys again.The weekend is here and although we're just through the holidays and had a bunch of time off, a couple more days off sounds mighty fine! Check this out:
Yeah, yeah it starts off slow. But trust me, it really starts to rock about here:
That's the first part of Pink Floyd: Live in Pompeii. Quite possibly one of the greatest rock movies ever made. My buddies Erich and Chad turned me on to it back in my Boulder days. The copy we had back then was on a VHS tape that was really poorly dubbed but we didn't seem to mind turning it up to "11" anyway and disturb our neighbors at 3:00 in the morning. Good stuff and good memories.
Anyway, I've been busy working on my new biz and have a couple other exciting opportunities on deck. One of these opportunities could be huge change... we'll see. I'll know more about them next week. In the meantime, I'm finally going to get on my snowboard for the first time this season. Pathetic! I gotta get my snow legs going for a cat trip Jevan and I have planned for my bro's bachelor party in Feb. I think it's really going to kick ass!
I'll post some snowboard pics next week. Have a good weekend y'all....
We had a crew of 5 of us tearing up the corduroy goodness of Beaver Creek.
We skied two days with 15 runs the first day and 17 runs the next. I'm pretty sure I wore the Iowegians out. Going bell to bell in Colorado is a lot different than going the whole day at Sundown Mountain. Although Sundown does claim to be like a Colorado resort.Another work week and I was off on a Friday again. This time it was for work though. One of our customers had an event up at Winter Park so Beau and I had to go. The best part is that they got over 16 inches of fresh snow over night:
It seemed a lot deeper than 16 inches in the trees.
Beau Rockin' it.
We got back to the back side of the Parsen bowl pretty quickly and made two runs before most people got back there.
Yep. It was that good.
I hadn't been to Winter Park in about 10 years but it was just like I remember it. Really Flat:
Click on the map. I've detailed the most sucky areas for snowboarders on Winter Park. Notice how you can't get anywhere without hitting at least one flatter than a dog turd run over by a tractor tire area. I think I'll keep my five mountain pass, thank you!
Even with the flat suckiness to get to the runs, it was a pretty epic day.
On the way back Beau dropped me off in Idaho Springs to hitch a ride with Ab up to Avon. 
It was pure nastiness on the way through Frisco. There must have been 50 cars in this pile up with a gravel truck turned over, jackknifed horse trailer and several cars smashed or upside down in the ditch. We made it safely and had a great dinner at the Minturn Saloon. If you're ever in the area, I highly recommend it!
The snow at Beaver Creek was great on Saturday with plenty of Pow still to be tracked up. Unfortunately I forgot my camera. Trust me, lots of sun and plenty of snow. It was beautiful.
Hopefully I get a couple more days in this season but it's not looking promising.
Looks like I get to install a new kitchen faucet tonight instead of riding my bike. Good times.
I guess Utah was waiting for us:
Too bad the snow wasn't:
It's hard to tell in the crap video from my phone but the snow at Canyons resort was the consistency of frozen mash potatoes. Not the champagne powder that UT is known for. Of course it snowed a foot the next when we were working.
On our way back to the car after plowing through crap snow, we witnessed the awesomeness of a PT cruiser with flames:
That's one way to express your mid life crisis but I think I'd go more this route:
Yeah, that's right. I'd go drag racing on a motorcycle with jets attached to it. Not sure why other than it would be really cool to go 191 mph in 1/4 mile and you could roast marshmallows in the flame. I'm sure my wife would enjoy it more than cruising around in a rad PT cruiser.
Speaking of Rad:
Gosh, from The Dynamic Duo to dancing with bikes. Pure awesomeness. Are you having a hard time following me today?
I'll leave you with some sweet horns and bass to get you through "hump day". John Brown's Body -- Heart and Soul:
It's shaping up to be a craptacular day at work. At least it's hump day and the weekend is in view. Last weekend was great. We went up to Avon with some friends and their kids. Unfortunately one of their kids had a nasty cough that turned into pnemonia and they were unable to go snow riding with us on Saturday. I sure hope my guys don't get it!
Ab and I were able to get out for a nice 4 hour session in the morning before both of our boys had meltdowns in daycare and ski school. We had to pick them both up and end our day early. No worries, that's just how it goes with two kids under 3. We had a great time that afternoon playing in the deep snow around the house. I haven't seen snow like this up there in a long time.
We headed back home on Sunday morning and had a great day of cleaning up around the house with the warm weather. I got to wash my bikes which had been neglected for several weeks. Which was perfect because I went on the shop ride last night at Boulder Valley Ranch.
It was a small group of guys this week which meant we rode a whole lot faster. Not good for a guy that's been off his bike for two weeks because of work travel. It was a nice break and the beer tasted great afterwards.
I'll try to post some pics tonight....
It was cold this weekend! 10 degrees on the hill and well below zero with the wind. We gotta get ski days in while we can! Work's got me down for a few weeks, so it's going to be a while before we get up again. Ab is skiing really well on her new skis and stealthy outfit:
Notice how his gloves are not in use, yet he has a giant smile on his face. I'm not worried about this kid ever getting cold! It won't be long and he'll be skiing down the big runs.
It's time to escape the rat race and go to the hills for some more snow riding. Here we are last weekend:
Thanks Casey for the great pic of me almost getting impailed by sharp bush branches. Hopefully the snow is just as deep this weekend! My bro has posted a report of last weekend's action as well.
Next week's looking like a barn burner of a work week complete with a retail grand opening of a customer in WA. Robert and I are hoping to catch a concert on Saturday night in Seattle... we'll see.
Finally a weekend on snow. This weekend was a little different in that we had Arjen with us. We had been pumping him up about skiing since the end of last season. Ab took him up to Beaver Creek Friday to get fitted with boots and a helmet. He was ready to go Saturday morning:
Here I am putting his boots on...likely not the last time. He was psyched to go until we dropped him off with the instructors. Not a happy good bye! But we checked back a few minutes later and all was well. This meant we could hit the mountain!
Ab enjoying the bluebird day with great snow.
It's good to be back on the board again!
Jevan and Casey soaking up the rays.
We found plenty of powder in the trees.
We picked up Arjen from ski school and heard all about his days adventures. How do you stop on skiis?? Pizza! How do you go on skiis?? French Fries! He had a ball and couldn't wait for the next day. We headed back to home base to relax:
Nothing like a little hot tub action to relax sore muscles.
We went to the Gashouse for dinner and had some steaks. Decent food but not extrodinary. I think we were all really tired too. We went back to the house and watched an excellent movie picked out by Meggan: Eastern Promises. If you like movies about the Russian mafia and people getting their throats slit, this movie is for you. I would have much rather watched Bruce Willis in Live Free or Die Hard. Anyway, we got some good sleep before day 2 on the slopes.
Arjen had a hard time leaving us again in the morning but had a good time despite us not being there:
I think we have a powder hound in the making!
Ab, Beau and I met at the mid mountain lodge after some early runs. It was COLD! After a warm up of coffee and Doritos we made a run down Redtail:
Sorry about the F-bombs in this video. I couldn't resist posting it!
We decided to take a half day on the hill and try to beat traffic down the hill. Well, we missed most of the bad traffic but it gave our little man a nice rest:
Skiing is hard work!!
We're going up again this weekend for more....
Finally we're making a trip up to the high country this weekend to do a little snow slidin'. Conditions look great!!! Yeah, yeah. Beaver Creek is a little hoity toity but after those stuck up richer than rich folks go out for one run, they're done. I'm talking about no lines and lots of good snow baby!! This will also be the first time Arjen hits the snow on skiis...I think he's gonna be a big fan! More to come....
