Another Winter Park Ski Report

Days 17 and 18 seemed to roll by with the quickness this weekend at the Winter Park resort. OK snow combined with warmer temps made for a fun weekend. I love this time of year because my legs are in prime condition which allows me to stop less and ski more. Duh. So now that I’m skiing most of the day with only 1 beer/lunch break; time certainly seems to speed up :( Monday’s… yuk.

WP/MJ had it goin on as usual during the 14th of January. I met with an eFriend of mine, Danno, and skied most of the day on Saturday mainly over on the Mary Jane bumps. BTW, sorry about dragging you down Jeff’s Chute… we seemed to find every rock imaginable on the steep double-black face. Though, with the expected snow on the way for this coming weekend, the Chuttes area on the Jane will certainly be a killer time soon enough.

Now that a really sweet snow-packed base has had time to set up, Winter Park has decided to fire up the Snowcats for some overtime grooming of runs that usually are a bit bumpy for this time o year. Yep, that’s right folks; all the baby boomer locals (and Texans) have complained loud enough to make WP/MJ officials smooth out things to make it easier for them to ski… whatever. Let the pillaging begin.
The 18th was a fun morning. Only skied about 2 hours because i had to run back to my bro's to watch the Steelers beat-down the Colts! What a game. Denver - you better watch out when you meet up with the Stillers!

Here’s a half groomed picture of Engledive that lives on Winter Park side of the mountain. BTW, I’ll at least give that to em… they only groom half the run in most cases. But why did they have to groom over my favorite skiers-left line off the Prospector Lift? Given.













See ya next time folks. Hopefully a Crested Butte TR is coming up...