jamesdeluxe
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- Jul 17, 2020
Yesterday (snowing hard all day combined with flat light and fog/couldn't see any of the gorgeous surrounding scenery) was one of those times when photos just weren't capturing how good it was. Plus, I was skiing solo so no one was there to take pix of me or to serve as a subject. I usually don't believe in raving "Top 5 day of the season" in early January; however, yesterday certainly felt like a Top 5 day.
CB is generally regarded as one of North America's best expert mountains. See all those double-blacks? They're legit and given my non-expert status, I wouldn't get near a lot of them, especially the hike-to stuff along the top looker's right.
One of the big secrets about Crested Butte is that there's quite a bit of terrain for mere mortals too: looong upper-intermediate runs with no flat spots and even a healthy amount of green trails. The marketing department's been trying to communicate that talking point forever, but the pesky and inaccurate "experts-only" perception persists to a certain degree. In short, it's a fantastic, unique mountain in a location -- four-ish hours from Denver if the roads are dry/add another hour in tough weather, including an occasionally white-knuckle Monarch Pass -- that you have to make a special commitment to ski. The tradeoff is that you're amply rewarded on a variety of levels (including no liftlines), especially when conditions are great. Also worth noting is atmospheric Elk Avenue in the town, which is a U.S. national historic landmark district.
Anyway, all I have are a few pix of when I wasn't in the single-black woods. As I said, they don't do the day justice:
Crested Butte village scores extra points for having a Volant bench at a ski bus stop:
CB is generally regarded as one of North America's best expert mountains. See all those double-blacks? They're legit and given my non-expert status, I wouldn't get near a lot of them, especially the hike-to stuff along the top looker's right.
One of the big secrets about Crested Butte is that there's quite a bit of terrain for mere mortals too: looong upper-intermediate runs with no flat spots and even a healthy amount of green trails. The marketing department's been trying to communicate that talking point forever, but the pesky and inaccurate "experts-only" perception persists to a certain degree. In short, it's a fantastic, unique mountain in a location -- four-ish hours from Denver if the roads are dry/add another hour in tough weather, including an occasionally white-knuckle Monarch Pass -- that you have to make a special commitment to ski. The tradeoff is that you're amply rewarded on a variety of levels (including no liftlines), especially when conditions are great. Also worth noting is atmospheric Elk Avenue in the town, which is a U.S. national historic landmark district.
Anyway, all I have are a few pix of when I wasn't in the single-black woods. As I said, they don't do the day justice:
Crested Butte village scores extra points for having a Volant bench at a ski bus stop:
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