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2015-03-05 01:01
in Nsnow, Snow
After Salt Lake City, I flew to Denver to go meet Arturo half way through his long snowboarding trip. We started in Keystone just after a powder day the net morning:
The next day, we went to Breckenridge. Weather was nice, a bit too nice. As a result the snow was not so great (good layer, but pretty icy and all the nice powder from the previous day was now not so good):
From the top of the cirque, the view on the other size was quite nice too:
Eventually we crossed to the other side of the resort (from the top of the cirque):
After doing headwall and the cirque several times, we went to the backcountry bit on the other side of the resort, but while the top view was nice, riding down wasn't the best snow anymore:
The last day, we drove to nearby Highlands to try its backcountry bowl which you can reach with a snowcat and hiking, but unfortunately by then the snow had been frozen, so it was crust early on and not great snow after it started melting a bit. We gave it a shot (and it was also tracked out to hell, which was surprising), and then tried the rest of the resort, but Arturo had issues with his board that had been tuned improperly and didn't dig its edge properly anymore, so we left a bit early:
Some EpicMix pictures Arturo got for us:
You can go to my Driving Through Colorado page to see pictures of Aspen and the pictures from my flight home.
we got two rides on the snowcat for a bit extra powder
once on north bowl, and once on south bowl
snow wasn't great, pretty crunchy
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