ADKmike
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- Jul 22, 2020
Friday was the last ski day of the trip before heading to Denver for a night out and a flight on Saturday. The snow forecast for A-basin wasn't looking like anything crazy...but starting out the week with springlike weather was making half a foot sound pretty deep.
Woke up to cloudy skies and socked in mtns, with a couple inches on the car down in Silverthorne. Good sign. Heading up Loveland Pass, roads were covered, another good sign.
4-6" had fallen and it was snowing lightly when pulling into the lot.
This was my kind of place. No condos, no bullshit, old school vibe, hardly a crowd. Got my BOGO tix and headed into the lodge to change real quick then caught first-ish chair. Weather had turned much colder, and snow was starting to come down pretty heavy at times. It must have been 10 degrees or so, the first real cold day, but I was fine with that.
Heading up Pali lift - steep all the way to the bottom - good stuff
Wide open Montezuma Bowl
Coming up the back side to drop back over to the front of the mountain and head to Pali zone. For some weird reason, it had stopped snowing on the back side, and was dumping over the ridge. I headed back to the Pali lift and skied the front side of the mtn for the rest of the day, it was snowing pretty hard, so by mid-day it had to be at least 8" maybe more. Great, deep snow, and some killer steep terrain.
One of the best lines of the day
Pali
Finished off an awesome day with a reasonably priced beer that was $1 off with my lift ticket stub. Nice bar at the lodge here, would have liked to hang out more but we had to make our way through the rest of Loveland Pass and off to Denver.
<img src="https://forum.nyskiblog.com/file/n4102542/beer.jpg[/img]
This was a really cool road to drive. Was looking to take the usual picture at the Continental Divide sign, but it was buried in snow.
Spent the last night in downtown Denver with wife's friend, ate some good tacos, poured my own beers (First Draft, cool place, pay by the ounce), nothing much else to report there.
Well, that's the report, hope you enjoyed it!
Woke up to cloudy skies and socked in mtns, with a couple inches on the car down in Silverthorne. Good sign. Heading up Loveland Pass, roads were covered, another good sign.
4-6" had fallen and it was snowing lightly when pulling into the lot.
This was my kind of place. No condos, no bullshit, old school vibe, hardly a crowd. Got my BOGO tix and headed into the lodge to change real quick then caught first-ish chair. Weather had turned much colder, and snow was starting to come down pretty heavy at times. It must have been 10 degrees or so, the first real cold day, but I was fine with that.
Heading up Pali lift - steep all the way to the bottom - good stuff
Wide open Montezuma Bowl
Coming up the back side to drop back over to the front of the mountain and head to Pali zone. For some weird reason, it had stopped snowing on the back side, and was dumping over the ridge. I headed back to the Pali lift and skied the front side of the mtn for the rest of the day, it was snowing pretty hard, so by mid-day it had to be at least 8" maybe more. Great, deep snow, and some killer steep terrain.
One of the best lines of the day
Pali
Finished off an awesome day with a reasonably priced beer that was $1 off with my lift ticket stub. Nice bar at the lodge here, would have liked to hang out more but we had to make our way through the rest of Loveland Pass and off to Denver.
<img src="https://forum.nyskiblog.com/file/n4102542/beer.jpg[/img]
This was a really cool road to drive. Was looking to take the usual picture at the Continental Divide sign, but it was buried in snow.
Spent the last night in downtown Denver with wife's friend, ate some good tacos, poured my own beers (First Draft, cool place, pay by the ounce), nothing much else to report there.
Well, that's the report, hope you enjoyed it!
