As I mentioned at the end of last week, my friends Ken and Jon were in town visiting through yesterday. After hitting up all of the Denver area sights for a few days, we headed up into the mountains for some skiing and snowboarding. As luck would have it, friends of ours were staying in a huge cabin north of Winter Park and invited all of us to stay with them. So we headed up Thursday night so we could get some sleep and get up early to spend a long day at Winter Park. About halfway into our drive, the snow started falling and it never really seemed to stop.

The never ending snow left some great conditions for my first ever visit to Winter Park. And since it was Friday, the crowds were not bad at all. We hit the mountain with some of our friends from the cabin, along with Kim and I on snowboards and Ken and Jon on skis. We spent the majority of our time on the Mary Jane side of things, especially in Parsenn Bowl which was by far my favorite part. These runs started above the tree line and were very windy, but once we got down just a bit and into the trees, the powder was super thick and the terrain wasn’t too steep. It was “epic” as many would say.

After staying in the cabin again on Friday night, we woke up early on Saturday to head to Vail for another day on the slopes. Despite Vail being on our season passes, we had only been one time before. If it were a little closer to Denver we would probably be there all the time. Anyway, after experiencing Parsenn Bowl the previous day we wanted to finally get out to the legendary back bowls of Vail. The lines were much longer than before, but we finally made it out to Blue Sky Basin. I must say that this area really is amazing! Incredibly long runs full of trees, deep powder, and more fun than imaginable. Check out pictures from both days here.

Winter Park on Dwellable

Vail on Dwellable