Beaver Creek March 29-31 2024

[Ski2Live Live2Ski]

Awesome time with my teens. Skied about 30k of vert today including moguls, trees, steeps. Stayed at the Christy Lodge in Avon. Got some HH jackets at an end of season sale. Boarding the red eye in an hour.

Edited April 1 by Ski2Live Live2Ski

[saltyant]

WJW, $149 a night is pretty cheap for being close to Vail. You must have saved a lot by taking the Frontier red eye flight.

Edited April 1 by saltyant

[RidgeRacer]

15 minutes ago, saltyant said:

WJW, $149 a night is pretty cheap for being close to Vail. You must have saved a lot by taking the Frontier red eye flight.

Stop trolling salty. 

Ski 2 appreciate the tr. Looks awesome.

Edited April 1 by RidgeRacer

[Ski2Live Live2Ski]

Good bit more than $149/night at the Christy Lodge. We did save some $ on flights with Frontier miles but easily spent $2500 with the room, Epic Mountain Express, meals, baggage fees and parking (not counting lift tix which were free on Epic pass, or our HH purchases). Also free cookies each day.

Bottom pic has the kids on the "Golden Eagle" double black World Champ downhill run off the Bird of Prey lift - which they aced twice with the optimal conditions of of 4" of fresh snow having fallen on top of a recently groomed surface. 

Next April: Vail

 

Edited April 2 by Ski2Live Live2Ski

[Schif]

How was the Epic Mountain Express? I saw a lot of those little busses and vans last year but didn't' know of anyone to actually use the service. 

[saltyant]

49 minutes ago, Ski2Live Live2Ski said:

Also free cookies each day.

How were the free cookies? Were they Oreos, Chips Ahoy, or generic brand? Were you allowed to take more than one cookie each day? Could you take another cookie after each run? Were the cookies better, the same, or worse than the sugar cookies at Camelback in 2017? Did they serve hot cocoa with the cookies? If so, how did the hot cocoa taste?

[Ski2Live Live2Ski]

26 minutes ago, Schif said:

How was the Epic Mountain Express? I saw a lot of those little busses and vans last year but didn't' know of anyone to actually use the service. 

It is a nice service - very prompt and friendly. For 1-2 people it is to me a no brainer particularly with the Epic discount if going to only one Epic Mt as there is really no need for a car in any of those CO towns, as well as the cost and difficulty of ensuring you can renting a traction law compliant car and the challenges of driving through a rocky mt storm. For 3 people I could have saved some money renting an AWD vehicle, but there would have been much more hassle and driving risk involved.

Of course Bustang is the cheaper way to go - but schedules are far less flexible and you have to still get between airport and downtown Denver with all your gear to get the bus. I opted to pay more to use our time and energy more efficiently.

 

28 minutes ago, saltyant said:

How were the free cookies? Were they Oreos, Chips Ahoy, or generic brand? Were you allowed to take more than one cookie each day? Could you take another cookie after each run? Were the cookies better, the same, or worse than the sugar cookies at Camelback in 2017? Did they serve hot cocoa with the cookies? If so, how did the hot cocoa taste?

Very nice cookies - fresh slightly warm chocolate chip with soft center and crisp exterior. Take one at a time but can come back for another round. There is about a 15 min window they are being distributed starting at 3.