This past Sunday is going to be hard to top.  I spent the morning and early afternoon at Breckenridge, which reported eleven inches of fresh snow!  The same group that I’ve been going to the mountains with decided to once again head up on Sunday, and we even added another to our group.  The drive up was pretty easy and we arrived at the Breck gondola parking lot around eight.  This allowed for us to be on the lifts just after the 8:30 opening.  I spent the day with Rob, as I have done recently.  We knew that we wanted to go up into the high elevations to find powder, but had to wait for those lifts to open.  While waiting we did a few quick runs through Mach 1.  The first time we arrived, they had just opened the trail so we were able to enjoy nearly a foot of untouched snow!

Eventually the higher elevation lifts were open and we enjoyed some more great runs through Horseshoe Bowl, Whale’s Tail, and North Bowl areas.  It wasn’t as easy to find untouched snow, but we were successful on a few different runs.  I managed to ride the T-Bar three more times without falling off.  That takes my record with the lift to 5-0.  Eventually we decided to go check out the recently opened Peak 10 after the lines got bad on the other lifts we were using.  Unfortunately we never found much snow like there was over on Peaks 7 and 8.  From there we called it a day and started the long drive back to Denver.  Not only did the snow create great conditions on the mountain, it also jammed up the roads pretty well.  It was well worth it though.  The snow has continued to fall since then, so I may have to get another day in over the holiday weekend.