Eldora, CO 12-19-15

EMSC

EMSC

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Super warm day for late Dec. Somewhere around the freezing mark on-hill and above it by far even in Nederland. Following our recent pattern, running up the hill for 3-4 hrs of skiing with a mix of lower mtn and upper. Despite 9"+ of snow this week the winds blew most of it to Kansas leaving conditions very similar to last week but slightly worse. SO fairly easy to find the hardpack underneath but still some decent fluff on top in most/many places.

We took Jr down into the Indian Peaks lift for his first time ever. He was pretty excited about that. Overall though he was clearly pretty tired right from the start so a lower energy day from him and he slept the entire way down canyon for the first time in a long time. Most days he doesn't even fall asleep anymore.

Snowmaking has opened up several more trails in the past week up there and wish I could have tried some of them out (like Muleshoe). A couple of glades are now open and the snowpack (where the wind didn't strip it away) is starting to catch up to the manmade base depth in a lot of areas. Basic gist is that is when snow really starts to stay around better and skiing starts to get good at Eldo. Just need to keep the 100 MPH winds at bay!

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I think EMSC said he was getting the RMSP, includes Copper Mt. Winter Park and Copper both have exceptional amounts of green terrain.

I have read that Copper's early season snowmaking priority is race training, with the beginner terrain tending be fully open around this mid-December time frame. Winter Park gets more snow and opens terrain faster than Copper, both this year and historically.
 
Tony Crocker":1vm5qoub said:
I have read that Copper's early season snowmaking priority is race training, with the beginner terrain tending be fully open around this mid-December time frame. Winter Park gets more snow and opens terrain faster than Copper, both this year and historically.
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While copper does indeed focus on Race training you would actually rather go there the first couple of weeks each season since Winter Park focus' is on ~600 vert of beginner terrain those first couple of weeks; WP doesn't even open a single run off the top of any of the 'peaks' for several weeks at least. Copper at least goes for a minimum of one top to bottom blue right off the opening day bat...

Then the pendulum switches to WP's favor the next several weeks through at least mid-Dec and potentially into late Dec/early Jan.

Just in case anyone is curious.

I do for this year have the RMSP+

Jr is not the critical factor in ski location thus far: total available time, drive time vs on-hill time, other commitments and work items, etc.. lots of other factors. As at Thanksgiving, we are hosting Christmas too (already have a couple of non-ski relatives with us). So just not much time in our days this year so far. Probably get up to WP in another week or so once we get past Christmas, though still only occasionally.

Until then I'm playing catch-up (almost caught up on work email today, still 2 weeks of personal email to catch up on tonight or tomorrow).

Just been happy to find 10 minutes to slap any kind of a TR together the past several outings.
 
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