Snowboarding Trips
The Great Canada Snowboarding Adventure The Great Canada Snowboarding Adventure GCSA Schweitzer GCSA RED Mountain GCSA Kicking Horse GCSA Lake Louise GCSA Revelstoke GCSA Sunshine Village GCSA The Long Drive Home GCSA Summary The Grand Tour of the North The Grand Tour of the North: Seeking Fresh Powder Edition GTotN: Planning GTotN Day 1: San Diego to Sun Valley GTotN Day 2: Best Western Tyrolean Lodge and Ketchum, ID GTotN Day 2: Sun Valley Resort GTotN Day 3: Sun Valley to Jackson Hole GTotN Day 4: Lexington Inn and Jackson, WY GTotN Day 4/5: Jackson Hole GTotN Day 5: Jackson to Big Sky GTotN Day 6: River Rock Lodge and Big Sky, MT GTotN Day 6: Big Sky Resort GTotN Day 7: The long way home GTotN Day 6/7: Holiday Inn Boise Airport and flight home GTotN: Conclusion
Steamboat During the Bomb Cyclone
It was (and still is) an amazing snow season, one of those you can tell tall stories about to your grandkids surrounding the fireplace. But the crown of the worst storm of the many definitely goes to the one that dropped a blanket of white from Aspen to Chicago. It marked the lowest barometric pressure ever recorded in Colorado, with some of the worst winter winds recorded. What a better day to do a road trip? Continue reading
I Can Tell-u-ride!
Yes! We finally had the most fantabulous snow season of the (this) century! 2018-2019 will forever go into snowboarding history as Colorado’s most fun, especially with the future being warmer and the snow trending towards occasional more than regular. In fact, I haven’t been updating this blog for a long while because I was having way too much fun on the slopes. Now the season is winding down and it’s time to recap almost six months of awesomeness! Continue readingMy Private Keystone
The previous post I spent dissing the EPIC Pass, but praising its mountains. Vail will always be one of my favorite places on Earth, despite being sick of high prices and breaking-down lifts. Breckenridge will always be my go-to place for a party (waiting for the Plunge!), but I’ll never reveal my secret stashes there, not even if you tortured me with a ski stick (yes, that’s what they were originally called! Continue reading
Crested Butte Weekend
It’s been a tough year for travel. I had to deal with a lot of work, and if I found the time to snowboard, I rather shot up I-70 to my favorite haunts than drive for hours and days just to slide down a mountain I didn’t know. I mean, I am some 75 minutes from some of the finest resorts in the world, do I really have to fly to marginally better or really just different mountains? Continue readingGTotN: Conclusion
It is Presidents’ Day 2016 as I write this. The sun has come out and it’s going to be a warm day in San Diego. The yellow jacket is staring at me on a chair opposite this computer, while the board and gear are still firmly lodged on the living room floor. It’s a mess, a glorious mess. This adventure was amazing. I saw places I would remember forever, had more fun than I thought I could have, was less stressed out than I thought I would by the constant need to move, move, move. Continue readingGTotN Day 6/7: Holiday Inn Boise Airport and flight home
To the West, the airport, to the right the Holiday Inn. I was happy about that, because I really didn’t want to deal with any kind of traffic in the morning. Location for the Holiday Inn is perfect, and the rooms are really nice. In fact, this was probably the nicest room I’ve stayed at during the entire trip. The only downside: I got a Hotwire room. Some hotels have the nasty habit of giving guests the crappiest rooms just because you ordered it with a discount. Continue readingGTotN Day 7: The long way home
One thing I failed to mention in my write-up of the snowboarding day in Big Sky is that it was “unseasonably warm.” It was mid-February, when temperatures should have ranged from 15 to 38 (low high). Instead, it was 38 to 50. Locals told me it felt like May. I had checked the weather before going up the mountain and made the right (if scary) call: only the Tesla base layer and a cotton sweater on top. Continue reading