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April 17th, 2021..Loveland Colorado day 5 of 6 of the Colorado skifari. I honestly didn’t feel like hustling to get ready for skiing today and the drive to Loveland on 70 isn’t as picturesque as the drive to Abasin. It was around 810am and I was in maybe the 14th row with maybe 19-20 available. A lot of folks taking their time to boot up and drinking beers. Secured my ticket for $75 and somebody by the ticket office was trying to sell tickets. It was in the mid teens and long lines for lifts one and two. Lift one at least gets you up there a little I think my wait was like ten minutes solid. Whoa mama the snow was good. It was day after a pow day conditions. Even on the old triples like the Ptarmigan lift people enthusiastically paired up but not that bad of a line there. I tried to take some pictures..it was frigid I definitely hit a few rocks as well.

Busy and chilly morning at Loveland.

This is a great photo! A++ two thumbs up!

April 16th, 2021 Abasin day four of six Hey All, I’m back from another fun day at Abasin. I was outside at 6am clearing the snow off my car..had Mickey dees breakfast again along with a coffee from hotel. I didn’t really relax much, I had ants in my pants..the powder panic. Left Hampton inn at 740am..pulled into Abasin before 810am, the drive was slow but uneventful...it was a brisk 19 degrees in Silverthorne and 14 degrees in the lot at Abasin. I wore a fleece layer which is rare for out west but wind chills below zero I need to be comfortable. Booted up, went to bathroom got in line behind a Richard nosely and lift line guy told him cover your nose..so anyway when it was time to go rick nosely and two snowboarders in front struggled in the perder and I clomped past then first civilian black mountain express and they let us off early enough that I was atop Lenawee at only like 9:08 and had enough time for a few pictures and to tighten my boots before the hoards of people behind me. Skeet skirted down the untracked between the groomed and snow fence was good..more than enough snow for float on my fat skis in medium and meadow skipping pitches. Oh steeps you have to be careful with turns or very light on your feet. In the woods it was enough new snow to cover up hazards. Down Lenawee and got that fresh then up Lenawee again got some fresh on steepish face basically under the lift..there were a lot of hoots and hollers I had to do one run on the lower mountain to the base because I knew there’d be swaths of untracked and I was not wrong but I was in the thick of crowds..rode the lift with somebody else from the base there was a parade of people descending on the mountain and I waited in a full corral for Lenawee lift..was an entertaining ride up..people were sending it..a lot of folks were hiking along the ridge. I took the rope tow over to Montezuma bowl..I knew the entrance was gonna be rough but better snow lower down..it wasn’t that bad...I did hit a big rock in some untracked powder I stayed on my feet. Went in the woods took a piss..found a nice little glade I’ve been in before and there were tons of tracks. Back to the front face it had to have been a real feel of -10 degrees at the top of Montezuma..I skied one of the main Lenawee runs..was pretty choppy the new snow will groom out well but it wasn’t a sleeper pow day. I got fresh on all my runs..waited in a few liftlines..and took some pictures.

Forgot to post this on Monday night since I got drunk from celebrating, but I finally finished my PhD at Widener University and hope to never take a class ever again. As difficult and time consuming as it was, I really enjoyed it and would 100% do it over again if I had to go back in time. Even though it is already official, the "official" ceremony won't be until May when I get to wear the fancy doctoral regalia. Looking forward to celebrating with @AtomicSkier Sunday morning with a Truly enjoyable gravel ride if anybody is interested. Hopefully this doesn't mean the end of my student discounts and now that I don't have my school commitment as an excuse, I'll have to find something else to use to get out of things that I don't want to do 😂 Also, this does not mean that you have to call me Dr. Toast.

It is when you get another 7" so far today and it's still snowing. It's be worth the extra time driving this weekend! There was 6" on the ground when I got back from Stowe around 4 today and another 1-2" fell since then.

Nice morning for concrete work. (Yes I know it’s very wet)

I’m skiing Loveland tomorrow and Abasin on Sunday. I thought about Copper this weekend but prices are sky high and they only received like 3”..there’s still some snow in the forecast for the rest of my trip.

Congrats! That's a big accomplishment. Did you have to take your orals over Zoom?