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Up in Marble and things are coming along. Went thru almost white out conditions on Vail Pass to get here. Siding is done, concrete floors getting polished starting tomorrow. Waiting on the inspectors to decide to drive from the other side of the valley before we can do insulation and close up walls. Fingers crossed by July will be ready for CO inspection.

Yesterday at Loveland, my ears started bugging me and I was feeling especially light headed. Just the walk from the middle of the parking lot to the ticket office had me sucking serious wind. I slept a lot last night then this morning I was dry heaving pretty bad and went back to sleep until 10am. I decided to take a rare day of today and I wasn’t that upset about it. I had five nice days including four pow days and and didn’t want to end this season feeling like poop. I left the comfort suites in silverthorne right before 11am and was at the Hyatt place by the Denver airport by 1230pm. Was just amazing I made it like four days into this trip before altitude sickness hit me. Sometimes it’s 1-2 days into the trip. I tried my best to stay hydrated and didn’t drink much alcohol this trip. So two years in a row, I have the same amount of ski days as the famous BenM. The only picture i took today was from my suite at Comfort suites before I went back to sleep. JADIP

I always laugh when resorts use the environment as an excuse to charge for parking, when everyone knows it’s simply to steal more money from their customers

Day 5 of 6 April 17th, 2022 Loveland Colorado Hey All, I’m back from another fun snowy ski day. I arrived at the lot at Loveland at 820am and it was a heavy wet snow upon arrival and windy as well. It’s amazing watching how past the lot at Loveland fills up. First lift ride up Chet’s dream and wow there were a lot of Herbs out doing herb things. Don’t believe anything you hear, most of these Colorado front rangers are goobs. Then the #2 lift which had untracked pow almost top to bottom. Then lift 4, lift, lift six and lift 9. I essentially worked my way across the mountain in 5-6 runs then 1-2 runs back. One quick safety break and my ears were bugging me. No real lift lines and I skied about half untracked mostly lower angel hippie pow and steeper pitches had crusties underneath and the woods had some nasties. As it was again cold and windy, I didn’t take many pictures but I think the few I took gives an overall idea of what this mid April has been all about.

38 degrees Inn dillon, just picked up supper from Cheba Huts. Johnny Law would be all about the fountain drink selection. They even had Hi-C and Kool Aid..

Still winter in the mountains. The winds are roaring today.

Too late for skiing but got to run some Mt Lemon AZ granite Moguls 😁 https://www.skithelemmon.com/new-page-1

In Charleston for the weekend and spotted this yacht. Heard it’s for sale for $40m. Heard yachts like this can rent for $250k a week + staff. but if you look closely, there’s a floating tiki hut with a motor and a bunch of bros on it. spotted this giant shipping boat - Wallenius Wilhelmsen. Learned that it has a bunch of BMWs on it. Turns out it’s like a giant parking garage that floats. then just normal sailboats soaking up the sunset light

Closed on this place today, 3br 2 full bathroom, decent sized lot, 20mins to the beach 20 mins to the bay. Property tax less than $2200 a year.

Excellent news is masks are no longer required on most airlines. It probably will still be required in the philly airport.

crazy what a difference the altitude does considering youre so close.

Break out the skis?

Just go to whiteface instead. Has more vert, it's closer and you can park your vehicle for free. Problem solved. Oh and it's not Vail.

Nice shot. Bummer about the altitude sickness. It doesn’t really affect me anymore but when it comes on, it really sucks. Safe travels home

Looks like anytime i would plan on going to Stowe, parking would be free, so i hope they charge a ton. I would rather go to Sugarbush anyways. The waffle hut there is spectacular.

There are 2 posters I’m expecting to come here and defend paying for parking...let’s see if I’m right

A little new snow.

Actually pulled the raclette lamp out today for extended family Easter dinner. Wegmand actually had Raclette cheese but I went with a wedge of a nice cheddar called The Full Vermonty

Did anyone have salt blocks or a cheese melter out there? @enjoralas, wanna go to Colorado next April?

Abasin is a party now.

Last night I got Mexican food from a place called Chamayo, consumed more gummies and slept grate. Alarm snooze alarm snooze this morning for me and I got the free breakfast from here at comfort suites. The kiwi strawberry juice was quite good. April 15th 2022 Abasin day 3 of 6. Today was back into the snow globe and the third of three days on the weekday three pack I purchased for Abasin. The drive up was the same as the previous two days, snow covered and took the same 22-23 minutes and I arrived around 835am. It was around 20 degrees and snowing hard as I booted up. No need to get a ticket or use the facility so I walked right up to the front of the Black mountain express line...clicked in and a few minutes later it was go time and I got my first civilian lift of the trip. It was snowing moderately and a little bit of a wetter snow than before and the parking lot was filling up fast unlike the previous two days. First run, two inches of fresh on top of cord on the lower mountain and followed it up with another, visibility decent enough to let em run. By the third lift ride there was a mini line and I rode the lift with somebody saying what a crummy day it was..I then went to Lenawee and low visibility up high was cool seeing people skiing and riding untracked pow from the lift. That was me a few minutes later..I skied a couple laps on known routes just milking the fresh then went back onto the lower mountain... Took a safety break then when all the way to the right still some green untracked and not much took the black mountain express again this time with people stoked to ski pow..they did talk about Vermont. I was able to ski back to my car, the early riser lot was beyond full and a solid inch of snow on the car and still snowing... The drive from Abasin to Keystone was sketchy icy snowpacked luckily only one person on my ass early that passed me. By keystone no snow on the roads and in Silverthorne this mornings snow was all melted and it was in the mid 30s. I stopped at Einstein bagels and got lunch to have in my suite..I also purchased a lift ticket to ski copper mountain tomorrow. I think it’s going to be very warm in comparison to the last few days at Abasin. Still snow shower activity in the forecast.

Thursday 4/14..day 2 of 6.. This morning I awoke to the first alarm I had set 6:17am and forced myself out of bed, went to Einstein’s bagels and bought one bacon egg cheddar tomato and onion everything bagel and one toasted everything bagel just with butter. I was hungry blame it on the gummies also had a medium coffee and an Arnold Palmer half and half tea and water. Hydrated to the max nice caffeine assisted duece..got dressed fast..four layer player again but last two layers don’t go on until the parking lot. The drive to abasin was semi spicy and snow covered with a few areas of blacktop. I maintained about 40 miles an hour and guy behind me was slower so the backup was behind him. Pulled into the lot at 840am I was a row closer to the lodge than yesterday probably because Loveland pass was closed. Cold boot up in 8 degrees or so full on snow globe went to men’s room then on one of the first chairs..at like 9:01am. I wanted easy country club hippie powder to start so did two fast laps on the lower mountain blues which were groomed with an inch or two of fluff on top, a few deeper areas on the sides of the trails but also some crusties below. An easy and pleasant start got on black mountain express a third time over to Lenawee which had people like every 20th chair. Everything is untracked or lightly tracked but visibility was not good especially the top of Lenawee...was also super windy at the top. I skeet skirted over to the beavers and was in the woods a little bit..some untracked in the woods but some hazards only rode the beavers lift one time and the top half of that lift ride above the tree line was freezing. I skipped Montezuma bowl today..semi high traffic and bad vis..I found the low visibility terrain off Lenawee wasn’t bad mainly cause it was all untracked and enough small groups to use as reference but if you were full charging and hugged the sides there’s definitely was coral reef that will send you ass over tea kettle even off the blues and single blacks. I thought about going inside to thaw out my toes a little and have a beer and soft pretzel but was still full from breakfast and did another run and a half on the lower mountain. The last run I call a half cause I pretty much went far right in search of perd and got it on two moderate pitches on green runs. Was a short ski day but no lines, breaks was cold, windy, snowy..the sun is trying to come out now in Silverthorne.

Up the montezuma lift and the goofy patrollers said welcome to the Zumba enturo. There was absolutely nobody on the back side or Lenawee like maybe people every 20th chair. Back on the upper front face, I actually waited for a group to get in front of me because the visibility was so bad and that area is essentially tree less. Even though I was following people I got vertigo a few times. The snow was so so good packed powder or a few inches of untracked everywhere. I accidentally ended up on a bump one on one of the later morning runs and was a little icy underneath. Even the black mountain express had no lines, I didn’t even ride the lift with anybody. I didn’t go on the Pali lift, I want better Vis for that terrain..looking like I’ll be back at Abasin tomorrow again..maybe it will be a degree or two warmer and the sun will come out. After skiing i went to the mountain Lynn cafe for steak and eggs then had some edibles and a long nap and enjoying a French dip Sammy right now from Cheba hut.

Hey All, I’m back from another fun ski day at Abasin. I arrived there at about 835am and it was 4 degrees with blowing snow and moderate winds. I picked up my pass and loaded the Black mountain express a few minutes before 9am. First run was just a mix of lower mountain Blues..groomed runs with about 1.5-2” of cold chalky pow wow. Second run was a repeat of the first as knew that lower mountain pow wouldn’t last and the good thing about those lower trails is the visibility is good as there are trees. Up black mountain express a third time and over to Lenawee, up Lenawee first half of the lift ride comfortable and second half my face froze...then took the rope row over to Montezuma bowl..I took a few pictures and with the temperature zero and real feel probably minus 10 taking off gloves to do anything was not a good plan. Top of Montezuma bowl had no visibility and areas of wind scoured ice with deep shabby snow along the snow fence. Was survival skiing but lower down was a more consistent few inches like on the front side. I then ducked into the woods for a safety break and skied to far before cutting back to the lift and did a little skinning with no skins. To be continued.

I got my rental car from Alamo. The lady at the counter Kyra said it was like $750 and I said online it was less so she got her assistant, Doug who remarked to me,”nice name” and I got my rental for $545. A Jeff Cherokee..it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles like Mutes car but fits my ski bag, just barely. Right now wt the chili’s in Wheat Ridge first real meal of the day, just had a stroopwaffel on the plane and some pretzels in Philly airport.

Hotel house to terminal in an hour and fifty minutes, not bad considering a very long line(about 20 minutes) through security. Jet Stream parking was super nice..I think the neighborhood (essington) I drove through was in Delco...hit a giant pot hole like a block from parking place...shuttle guy helped me with my ski bag. No line at United airlines check in..paid $45 for one bag..first checked bag free...at least I had a milfy blonde in stretch pants in front of me in line..no idea if she was 35 or 50 due to mask..walked through bomb sniffing dog and then in security to keep the line moving I didn’t have to take off my shoes. Also amazing how long people will stand in line for Dunkin’ Donuts JADIP...

Make sure you get some of those Rocky Mountain Oysters that you tell everyone about! Wouldn't want you to miss out on your own advice!

A pic from yesterday.

Will it take away from it or add more targets?

Nothing wrong with taking a rest day. Skiing is fun but doing it several days in a row gets tiring. Plus there are lots of cool things to see outside of ski resorts like the Mint.