We made it to Vail for the first time this weekend. I think Kim has been there before, but it was my first time ever. We arrived early enough to look around and find a free parking spot, otherwise it would have cost us nearly $20 to park. Once we were parked, we got all of our gear on and headed towards Vail Village and got in line for the lifts to open. After just a few minutes wait, the lifts were open and we were probably one of the first hundred people on.

My first impression was that the terrain is a little more difficult than some of the other resorts. It might have something to do with all the time we took off, but we found ourselves sticking to the greens and blues. Many of the blues provided a hard enough work out. We never made it to the legendary back bowls, but perhaps the next time we will. Our trip was cut short after a big snow storm came through and made it nearly impossible to see just a few feet in front of you. The storm probably dropped 4 inches in an hour.

We decided to head out early and beat the traffic. And looking back on it, I’m really glad we did. They closed I-70 from Vail to Copper Mountain just after we got through. If we would have waited a few minutes longer we would have been stuck in Vail until around 5, which wouldn’t have been a bad thing really, but then traffic would have been horrible trying to get back to Denver. It probably would have killed our night, which was instead spent watching TV on the couch until I fell asleep around 8:30. What an exhausting day!