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Visit to Denver
I'm going to be in Denver next weekend, through Tuesday Afternoon, and
would like to get one day of skiing in, if possible. Any suggestions? Anyone also going to be there, who would like to go along? -Ken ************************************************** ********* Kenneth Salzberg Hamline University School of Law (651) 523-2354 1536 Hewitt Ave. Sisu Skier - 50K Club St. Paul, MN 55104 ************************************************** **************** |
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Ken - Would love to go but contretemps forbid it. However I would
recommend Devil's Thumb Ranch near Frasier if you like big open fields or the Breckenridge Nordic Center if you like more technical terrain. Unfortunately there has been no new snow recently (some is called for tonight). Both locations open at 9 and are within 1 hour 30 minutes of downtown Denver. Chris Kenneth Salzberg wrote: I'm going to be in Denver next weekend, through Tuesday Afternoon, and would like to get one day of skiing in, if possible. Any suggestions? Anyone also going to be there, who would like to go along? -Ken ************************************************** ********* Kenneth Salzberg Hamline University School of Law (651) 523-2354 1536 Hewitt Ave. Sisu Skier - 50K Club St. Paul, MN 55104 ************************************************** **************** |
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Chris Crawford wrote:
Ken - Would love to go but contretemps forbid it. However I would recommend Devil's Thumb Ranch near Frasier if you like big open fields or the Breckenridge Nordic Center if you like more technical terrain. Unfortunately there has been no new snow recently (some is called for tonight). Both locations open at 9 and are within 1 hour 30 minutes of downtown Denver. What about Snow Mt? How are the XC centers out there these days? I'm having the worry that some are getting chopped up with recent condoification. Is the Breck center getting hemmed in much? --Still, I think they added a whole new territory higher up the mt. (That Gene is one resourceful guy! Just meeting him would be a good reason to visit Breck. Actually, you don't meet him, you tag along in his wake for awhile. He's always moving and appreciates having extra hands around which all get recruited. The cell ph was invented with him in mind. Especially the on-ear hands-free kind. I'm sure he's on the phone while he skis.) And he's an old Minnesotan from Ely! I'd think that touring the public Frickenridge Trail or Boreas Pass railroad grade would both be great things, too, on different sides of the Breck valley---time em to catch the sun right. Maybe do all 3 places in/near Breck. And even catch Frisco XC! If one wasn't KO'ed by the altitude maybe one could do them all in a day at cruising pace. -- Jeff Potter **** *Out Your Backdoor * http://www.outyourbackdoor.com publisher of do-it-yourself culture ... bikes, skis, boats & more! ... ... offering Vordenberg's XC ski tales in "Momentum"! ... ... "The Recumbent Bicycle": the only book about these bikes! ... ... Rudloe's "Potluck": true-life story of workingclass smuggling! ... ... with radical novels coming up via LiteraryRevolution.com! ... ... music! ... articles! ... travel forums! ... WOW! 800-763-6923 |
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Snow Mountain Ranch is the best! But I guess I am biased since I
lived in Grand County for awhile, learned to ski at Snow Mtn and met my husband there (the instructor for my first lesson). Now that we live in St Paul, Snow Mtn is the #1 place for our vacation time. Snow Mtn is doing very well. The new nordic director has done a great job in the last two years. I can't recall his name but according to Mark Birdseye (YMCA program director) he came from Alaska where he had a running store so he has developed the addition of a very impressive retail shop at the nordic center. Also, the grooming is much improved over a few years ago! There is now a cafe in the upstairs of the nordic building which serves hot food and snacks at reasonable prices from early morning until the end of the day. Always good snow and 90 km of great trails for all levels at Snow Mtn. We would still be skiing in May/June on Blue Ridge. There are lots of good skiers and racers who are regulars and go up from the front range every weekend or have second homes up there or have retired there just so they can ski at Snow Mtn all the time. I miss it every time I look out my window and see the bare ground. Teresa |
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, but for a couple winters, for a
couple hundred days a year, I'd get up at 4 am, groom a few hours at Breck, then XC ski a few hours, then tele ski a few hours then stay out on the town til closing, lived in a hallway on a nest of my own clothes. Whew! Kids! BNC used to have a loop that went from town out 5 miles to a ranch then 10 miles around that. Grooming that system was fun. It was grooming in the wilderness, basically. Elk and coyote everywhere. Steaming poops in the trail. The connector loop was called Squirrel, as I recall. I remember once getting off the trail with the Skidoo and tracksetter (didn't use the Cat out there) and plunging kit and kabootle down a hillside thru the avalanchy snow and trees til I got to the next switchback down of that trail. Ski trails with switchbacks in em are SO COOL. -- Jeff Potter **** *Out Your Backdoor * http://www.outyourbackdoor.com publisher of do-it-yourself culture ... bikes, skis, boats & more! ... ... offering Vordenberg's XC ski tales in "Momentum"! ... ... "The Recumbent Bicycle": the only book about these bikes! ... ... Rudloe's "Potluck": true-life story of workingclass smuggling! ... ... with radical novels coming up via LiteraryRevolution.com! ... ... music! ... articles! ... travel forums! ... WOW! 800-763-6923 |
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