Recent content by Matt Duffy

Not much to add to the good advice already given, except to say that Loveland does have a really nice chunk of north facing terrain off Lift One that shouldn't be ignored... It went off last year - skied in over a foot of powder there after they closed, and that was sometime in May if I remember...

Champagne was serverd at the base area before the lifts opened. Some radio station was there raffling away season passes on air. Got in line next to the Billy Kidd statue 30 minutes before the lifts opened. <BR> <BR>Unloaded from the gondola and rushed past hordes of people down the groomed...

Five friends and a dog walked along a trail to some snow for skiing in August. Almost there, the dog went for a swim. <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://back-pack.org/ninja/PM/uploads/images/duphphy_-_smgw1.jpg" TARGET="_top">http://back-pack.org/ninja/PM/uploads/images/duphphy_-_smgw1.jpg</A> <BR>...

With a free pass from campers spreading good karma, we drove up the highest auto road in North America today (14,260'). Normally it would cost $10, but for nothing we got to see things like this next to the auto road: <BR> <BR> <A...

What would you think if I said we skied a couloir that exceeded 60 degrees? Well, I'm saying it. <BR> <BR>The road to the Fourth of July Trailhead is a single lane, unpaved dust bowl for 4-5 miles of potholes, deep ruts and big rocks poking through. Cars with low clearance may have difficulty...

"The unique craggy summit towers set Citadel apart from its more-rounded neighbors, which were covered over and smoothed by Pleistocene glaciers. Citadel’s summit remained a tiny island above the ice and escaped this grinding fate." - Front Range Descents <BR> <BR>All season long, from many...

Bill, <BR> <BR>Goat at Stowe. Robin's Run at Smugglers' Notch - actually, most trails at Smugglers'. Most trails at Mad River Glen. Polecat at Wildcat. The whole Castle Rock region of Sugarbush(really!). Most trails at Magic Mountain.... There surely are many more, but my brain hurts. (I'm...

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Phat Tuesday <BR> <BR>I don't think the really heavy stuff is gonna come down for quite some <BR>time now. There was a sign at the top of Lift 1 at Loveland that at 10am <BR>read: New Record. 26" in 24 hours. At about noon it was changed to New <BR>Record. 33" in 24 hours. At 2:30, the record...

So I didn't exactly get up early today. One thing lead to another and I didn't get on a chair until 3:15pm, but hey, 45 minutes of ski time is better than none! Of course, at that time of day you ski onto the lift with no wait, and I was able to manage 4 runs in that time. Don't know how I...

I got a prime parking spot on the beach 30 seconds from the Pallavicini Lift this afternoon. No lift line whatsoever; tomorrow I'll arrive much earlier. About 5 minutes or so before I unloaded; I became aware that the rope was dropped and some classicly steep and varied Pali terrain was...

David, <BR> <BR> Every mountain has some challenge, some more than others. At some places you must look for it, at others it's everywhere. <BR> <BR> I've never been to Whistler/Blackcomb, but several of my friends have. They all seek challenge like you do; and they all rave about the awesome...

A-Basin was surprisingly good today. Why surprising? Because while <BR>Loveland got 8", A-Basin got 3". Strange but true. Still, things were nice <BR>and forgiving. <BR> <BR>Nick found an alternate entrance to a natural half pipe that involves <BR>flying off a lip into about 15 feet of air...

In the morning, I hit Loveland Basin to raid what stashes remained at the <BR>end of yesterday. More remain even still. They got 8 inches out of <BR>yesterday's storm, but there was rarely 8" covering anything I skied. It <BR>was either a lot less, or a lot more. I stuck to the places with a lot...