A Dusting.......

Hey guys, what’s up? D-Nys here… so, the weather is starting to cool down…when you look to the mountains, you still see green- but something else is hiding. When you look closer in the high country something is starting to accumulate. Snow. Sweet! I’ve started paying attention to the resort websites, and they say ‘a dusting covers the ground’ but I say it’s a base to another wonderful season.

Down here in Boulder the wind is starting to whip through town and attached is the beginning of winter. You can feel the warm and cool swirls being replaced by cold weather. The only downside I see to winter is the miniskirts and flip flops being replaced by sweaters and Uggs… but you gotta take the bad to get the good!

If you spent any time in Colorado last year during the winter you would know that it was one of the best in at least a decade. Some of the best boarding I’ve ever done happened last season. Snow was coming down all over the place. There were very few days when I showed up to the slopes and new powder wasn’t laid down like a perfect blanket. That’s right, plenty of powder accounts for smooth riding.

That being said, I still fear that this season will have minimal snow. Last year was so good that this year is bound to disappoint to some extent. Last year I was all over the state snowboarding. Hitting Winter Park with a season pass, I went to Telluride for winter break, and supplemented with trips to Breckenridge and Eldora. Not that I won’t have killer winter either way- rough conditions can only improve my mad skills.

This year my season pass is at Eldora. It is a smaller resort in the town of Nederland but is very close to Boulder. That means closer boarding and minimal traffic on the way up. I am also purchasing a five day pass to Steamboat which is famous for world class powder. I will also pick up a four pass to Copper Mountain. It is off of I-70 and gets a ton of snow. So if you want to board like a God you need to take my advice and hit the slopes in these areas. ‘Til next week….D-Nys out!!