Red Mountain Lodge

[Barb]

We made it to the lodge finally. It is truly a lodge and not a hut. We actually didn’t even have to skin in. You park 1/4 mile from the forest road. So we loaded up our stuff at the car, carried our skis down the road. Then it’s like a 5 minute walk from the road to the lodge. There are 2 awesome lodge dogs here also. 
 

some pics

 

our little room cubbies. 2 beds per space. 

can’t wait to ski tomorrow!!

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I clicked on PASR at the right time to see this sweet thread.  Have a blast..lodge dogs are rad and probably love all the activity.  

[Barb]

I have been giving the dogs lots of love. They are very cuddly. They are putting out apres food now. We stopped at Ouray Brewery for lunch, mistake since now I am not hungry. 
 

 

[Barb]

I fully admit I am not good at doing full days. We did a 1/2 day.  Forecast was a high of 10 degrees with snow and blustery winds. It was accurate. Visibility was very very bad. Our guide took us to a mellow ish spot about 30 degree descent. For some reason a 30 degree slope feels a lot more intense in the backcountry. We followed the skin track about 1/4 mile from the lodge, then our wonderful guide broke trail for the rest of it. We had about 6” of snow overnight and it was fluffy and light. 
 

our guide

my friend Ilise is by a tree but is blending in. 
 

We were in the Red Mountain 3 zone and saw what that face looked like and it was def above my ability. We cut thru the trees to a run called “Hollywood”. I forgot how much it sucked to transition in true backcountry conditions.  Wind, snow, freezing temps and deep powder. Nobody had been on our run today, it was all virgin snow. I am still intimidated by powder mostly because of all my stupid injuries. The guide and Ilise zoomed down and Jesus I was slow. At one point I stopped because I felt  like I had vertigo from the white out conditions. Who am I kidding, I stopped several times 😂. My form was awful. The guide is going to send some pics but I almost don’t even want to see them. 
 

then we transitioned back to skins and went back thru the trees to “Bollywood”. We started to ascend but surprisingly we’re already pretty beat up. So we opted to ski down from where we were on the lower half of Bollywood. I felt a bit better in that run. To add insult to injury we had to transition yet again to skins as it was uphill back to the lodge. And 5 min before we got there the skies cleared up and it was beautiful 

If you zoom in to the center part in the trees you can see our skin tracks up and descent tracks from lower Bollywood. Hollywood is further up then cutting thru the trees going left (uphill). You can actually see our uphill skin track on other side of trees in Hollywood. And some descent tracks as well

Edited March 27, 2023 by Barb

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Way to get after it…don’t be hard on yourself about skiing Pow slow or only wanting to do a half day, most skiers and riders only ski lift served groomers.  

[Barb]

Had some beautiful people helicoptered in from Telluride last night. I mean really?! 

Let me paint the scene for you;

Main guy ($)- blonde curly hair cascading over his shoulders mid 50’s

his woman- 30 if that, walks in w full length fur coat with a second fur coat draped over her arm. 
 

guy #3- man bun- enough said

guy # 4- pilot

finally some sun this morning. This place is the bomb. Would recommend to anyone. 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

4 minutes ago, Barb said:

Had some beautiful people helicoptered in from Telluride last night. I mean really?! 

Let me paint the scene for you;

Main guy ($)- blonde curly hair cascading over his shoulders mid 50’s

his woman- 30 if that, walks in w full length fur coat with a second fur coat draped over her arm. 
 

guy #3- man bun- enough said

guy # 4- pilot

finally some sun this morning. This place is the bomb. Would recommend to anyone. 

Do the wallets have a private room or the loft?

[Barb]

Private room of course. Not staying w us poor folk 

[mbike-ski]

they touring with you guys lol?

[Barb]

They are being helicoptered to their touring locations. Lol. No grunt work for them. The wallet’s backpack was micro tiny. I assume man bun is his Sherpa. 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

26 minutes ago, Barb said:

They are being helicoptered to their touring locations. Lol. No grunt work for them. The wallet’s backpack was micro tiny. I assume man bun is his Sherpa. 

I should laugh but I don’t even have a backpack.  Have fun today Barb. 

[enjoralas]

1 hour ago, Barb said:

Had some beautiful people helicoptered in from Telluride last night. I mean really?! 

 

 

I thought the next thing after this was going to be a pic of @AtomicSkier

[Barb]

Wohoo!  Great last touring day!  Weather much improved today though we still had the wind. 9 degrees when we started but felt great in the sun. 

This is out front door of lodge. 

Ilise skinning up

you can see how wind swept Red 3’s face is. We traversed left thru the trees well before that. Same route as yesterday since we knew the way and what to expect. 

trying to find a flat platform to transition 

 

looking up at our tracks. Makes the slope look so flat from this angle. Our skin track up got wind swept so I broke trail for most of it. Was tiring. 
some from yesterday from our guide 

 

 

Stellar trip! 

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Sweet report, I read it in a Wawa parking lot while killing a few minutes waiting for a takeout order.  
 

I bet you’re hungrier for the happy hour food today than arrival day.  Offer the Richie rich people a La Croix and they’ll say no thanks we already have Perrier.  Gray poupon would hold little weight around those wallets…

 

awesome pictures.  

Edited March 28, 2023 by GrilledSteezeSandwich

[Barb]

Thanks. The wallets did 1/2 day in the chopper and left. And yes, been partaking in the apres the last 2 days. Yesterday was a celery and potato soup, today is smoked salmon with cheeses, fruit and crackers. 
 

3 young girls here do all the cooking. They seem like very bad ass skiers. All have extreme goggle tans. 

[DiMe]

I bet the wallets name was Willham and he came just to show the blonde his really big tricks 🤣  Awesome report.  I had to google what a sherpa was. 🤔

Edited April 4, 2023 by DiMe

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

5 hours ago, DiMe said:

I bet the wallets name was Willham and he came just to show the blonde his really big tricks 🤣  Awesome report.  I had to google what a sherpa was. 🤔

Lol on the sherpa..you need to watch more Mount Everest documentaries.