So, here I go again (on my own.) Last year I took a Professional Leave and traveled in-search of good snow and good people. However, due to technical and climactic difficulties, I never blogged the trip. This year, I'm doing it again, hoping for better productivity. After a brief visit to Stowe, Vermont with my school's ski club (I'm a coordinator,) I set-out on a Tour of the West. My students dubbed this trip Snowbbatical Round 2. I arrived in Breckenridge on February 20th.
A big storm was set to drop a ton of snow on the Midwest, and Breckenridge reported a whopping 5 inches. I went and played for a few hours, but was so grumpified by the conditions off the T-Bar that I'm not even posting photos or video from that day. The next day, despite my grumpiness, I took the advice of Joel from Opensnow.com to go out and enjoy the snow. I'm glad I did. Here is a rough little edit.
Vail Day 2 - YouTube
I will update as often as possible.
My Itinerary includes:
Feb 21 - Breckenridge, CO
Feb 22 - Vail, CO
Feb 23 - Sleep
Feb 24 - Vail, CO
Feb 25 -Drive to Pike's Peak
Feb 26 - Copper Mountain
Feb 27 - Steamboat Springs
March 1 - Vail, CO
March 2 - A-Basin
March 3 - Keystone, CO
Mar 4 - Aspen Highlands
Mar 5th - Snowmass
Mar 6-7th- Undecided
Mar 8th - Hike Hanging Lake in Glenwood Canyon, CO
Mar 9th - Hike Arches National Park
Mar 10th - Hike Canyonlands National Park
Mar 11-15 - Salt Lake City Resorts (Dates To Be Determined, Resorts to include Canyons, Snowbird, Snowbasin, Solitude, Brighton, Sundance)
Mar 16/17 -Jackson Hole Mountain Resort
Mar 18 - Grand Targhee
Mar 19 - Hike Grand Teton
March 21-25 Return to SLC
March 28-May 1 - South Lake Tahoe (Dates to Be Determined/Resorts to Include: Heavenly, Kirkwood, Squaw, Homewood, Alpine Meadows, Northstar, Mt. Rose, Sierra at Tahoe)
May-July (TBD Yosemite, Sonoma, Santa Cruz, Big Sur, Santa Monica, San Diego, Joshua Tree NP, Sedona.......)
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A big storm was set to drop a ton of snow on the Midwest, and Breckenridge reported a whopping 5 inches. I went and played for a few hours, but was so grumpified by the conditions off the T-Bar that I'm not even posting photos or video from that day. The next day, despite my grumpiness, I took the advice of Joel from Opensnow.com to go out and enjoy the snow. I'm glad I did. Here is a rough little edit.
Vail Day 2 - YouTube
I will update as often as possible.
My Itinerary includes:
Feb 21 - Breckenridge, CO
Feb 22 - Vail, CO
Feb 23 - Sleep
Feb 24 - Vail, CO
Feb 25 -Drive to Pike's Peak
Feb 26 - Copper Mountain
Feb 27 - Steamboat Springs
March 1 - Vail, CO
March 2 - A-Basin
March 3 - Keystone, CO
Mar 4 - Aspen Highlands
Mar 5th - Snowmass
Mar 6-7th- Undecided
Mar 8th - Hike Hanging Lake in Glenwood Canyon, CO
Mar 9th - Hike Arches National Park
Mar 10th - Hike Canyonlands National Park
Mar 11-15 - Salt Lake City Resorts (Dates To Be Determined, Resorts to include Canyons, Snowbird, Snowbasin, Solitude, Brighton, Sundance)
Mar 16/17 -Jackson Hole Mountain Resort
Mar 18 - Grand Targhee
Mar 19 - Hike Grand Teton
March 21-25 Return to SLC
March 28-May 1 - South Lake Tahoe (Dates to Be Determined/Resorts to Include: Heavenly, Kirkwood, Squaw, Homewood, Alpine Meadows, Northstar, Mt. Rose, Sierra at Tahoe)
May-July (TBD Yosemite, Sonoma, Santa Cruz, Big Sur, Santa Monica, San Diego, Joshua Tree NP, Sedona.......)
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