tseeb
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Monday, March 3 - my first day ever here although I've driven past it a few times.
Leaving Steamboat on Sun, we drove about an hour to Kremmling we were spent night. Their brewery/distillery has stopped distilling and had limited beers on tap. Friend and I each had Peruvian chicken potato soup and we split a salad. I had a stout beer.
Mon AM we drove an hour and arrived Copper about 9 and (for $55) parked near where friend’s shuttle pickup would be between 3 and 3:30. It would have been much easier (and maybe cheaper) if he had used the 35% off Ikon Friends and Family I sent him before Valentine’s Day, but instead we waited in line to be told to go back and enter info online which took him 5 tries with desk person finally helping and almost 30 minutes to get his ticket. We loaded American Eagle after 9:30 and skied a run on it. Next time up we continued up on Excelerator and all skied long Collage to base.
I left my friend and wife and went up and rode a skied Excelerator a couple more times before riding Storm King T-bar to the top of Copper Mtn.
Snow at Copper was much better than Steamboat, with almost no sign of melt/freeze. Lillie G Traverse I skied to get to Blackjack and Three Bears lift was an exception. Snow on that run was thin and firm, probably from wind. I rode and skied Blackjack a couple of times and skied Western Slope on Three Bears once. Snow was good, but all the chutes in Three Bears were narrow with rock along edges. I met-up with my wife and friend at the Aerie and quickly went out with a small group of SkiTalkers. We skied Excelerator once, then skied down and rode American Flyer to get to Timberline which we rode a couple of times as some of the group wanted to do the skier-cross. I found my friend on Timberline and took him down the skier-cross which he enjoyed. We skied back to main base and he quit before 3 to change and re-pack for shuttle to DEN and flight. I went up American Eagle and did a couple of more laps on Excelerator before coming down near Super Bee lift so I rode a beginner chair and poled to bottom floor of parking garage where we’d parked. I finished skiing at 3:45 with 27.5K
Leaving Steamboat on Sun, we drove about an hour to Kremmling we were spent night. Their brewery/distillery has stopped distilling and had limited beers on tap. Friend and I each had Peruvian chicken potato soup and we split a salad. I had a stout beer.
Mon AM we drove an hour and arrived Copper about 9 and (for $55) parked near where friend’s shuttle pickup would be between 3 and 3:30. It would have been much easier (and maybe cheaper) if he had used the 35% off Ikon Friends and Family I sent him before Valentine’s Day, but instead we waited in line to be told to go back and enter info online which took him 5 tries with desk person finally helping and almost 30 minutes to get his ticket. We loaded American Eagle after 9:30 and skied a run on it. Next time up we continued up on Excelerator and all skied long Collage to base.
I left my friend and wife and went up and rode a skied Excelerator a couple more times before riding Storm King T-bar to the top of Copper Mtn.
Snow at Copper was much better than Steamboat, with almost no sign of melt/freeze. Lillie G Traverse I skied to get to Blackjack and Three Bears lift was an exception. Snow on that run was thin and firm, probably from wind. I rode and skied Blackjack a couple of times and skied Western Slope on Three Bears once. Snow was good, but all the chutes in Three Bears were narrow with rock along edges. I met-up with my wife and friend at the Aerie and quickly went out with a small group of SkiTalkers. We skied Excelerator once, then skied down and rode American Flyer to get to Timberline which we rode a couple of times as some of the group wanted to do the skier-cross. I found my friend on Timberline and took him down the skier-cross which he enjoyed. We skied back to main base and he quit before 3 to change and re-pack for shuttle to DEN and flight. I went up American Eagle and did a couple of more laps on Excelerator before coming down near Super Bee lift so I rode a beginner chair and poled to bottom floor of parking garage where we’d parked. I finished skiing at 3:45 with 27.5K
