The predicted snow Sunday night delivered, with Beaver Creek being the big winner of the northern mountains with 14 inches. Thus we went there rather than Vail which only got 8. Weather remained overcast and unsettled, and with the pace of a big powder day picture taking was limited, mainly when I needed a “suck wind” break.
This is the scenario where it was worth paying the $50 to park in the Ford garage at Beaver Creek’s base so we were in line 10 minutes before opening. Thus we skied Upper Centennial/Buckboard’s 2,200 vertical untracked to start the day. Paul led us next to the Rose Bowl lift where we scored a couple of deep laps on Cataract.
We rode Cinch to the top and skied Goshawk. This is a long run so I needed a stop and took some pic of Paul:
Followed by Liz:
Next were two Grouse laps on Screech Around. Paul, then Liz by one of the tree islands:
Liz on the last pitch before runout to Grouse:
We needed a lunch break at Talon’s at noon. Then we took one more Grouse run on Raven/Lower Osprey, still finding mostly powder turns on its middle half. Ten we took one more run On Birds Of Prey: Upper Peregrine to Lower Golden Eagle. After a short Moonshine diversion on the way to the base we planned to take a cruiser or two in Bachelor Gulch. That became one as we were lured by some remaining powder in the trees near Overshot.
We skied President Ford’s back to the main base in time for cookies. It was a 3 cookie day in both literal and figurative senses. We skied 24,800 vertical and the 13K of powder was the most lift serviced I have skied in a day since 2018.
This is the scenario where it was worth paying the $50 to park in the Ford garage at Beaver Creek’s base so we were in line 10 minutes before opening. Thus we skied Upper Centennial/Buckboard’s 2,200 vertical untracked to start the day. Paul led us next to the Rose Bowl lift where we scored a couple of deep laps on Cataract.
We rode Cinch to the top and skied Goshawk. This is a long run so I needed a stop and took some pic of Paul:
Followed by Liz:
Next were two Grouse laps on Screech Around. Paul, then Liz by one of the tree islands:
Liz on the last pitch before runout to Grouse:
We needed a lunch break at Talon’s at noon. Then we took one more Grouse run on Raven/Lower Osprey, still finding mostly powder turns on its middle half. Ten we took one more run On Birds Of Prey: Upper Peregrine to Lower Golden Eagle. After a short Moonshine diversion on the way to the base we planned to take a cruiser or two in Bachelor Gulch. That became one as we were lured by some remaining powder in the trees near Overshot.
We skied President Ford’s back to the main base in time for cookies. It was a 3 cookie day in both literal and figurative senses. We skied 24,800 vertical and the 13K of powder was the most lift serviced I have skied in a day since 2018.
