I came back on wednesday morning from Colorado. It's been a fantastic way to spend 4 days. Richard's family invited me to stay with them in Winter Park. I'm really lucky.
I rented some really good twin tip skis made in Colorado:
Liberty SB170
My impressions about skiing in Colorado:
- Very good quality snow
- Hard to breathe on the first day because it is so high in altitude
- Great weather most of the time (some really strong winds on the first day, though)
- Trees everywhere, even in high altitude (until 11.500 feet)
- sick terrain park and half pipe. This is really high quality stuff for experienced freestylers.
- People can ski very well. You see very few unexperienced skiers. After all, they need to make a long trip from the densely populated areas to reach the slopes.
- The vistas are not as impressive as in the Alps: the mountains are rather round.
A few things I had never experienced while skiing in the Alps:
- Eating a burger at 3000m. That's unheard of in Europe!
- Tree skiing on a "regular" run. No need to go off piste, the gladed terrain is where to look for good snow, fun turns between the trees, and some rather technical steep slopes. We didn't have a chance to experience the double diamond runs, but I
m sure they must be scary! Next time maybe?
I just had time to publish the pictures on my Picasa album before my laptop died. That's the second laptop failure in a year! These things are really unreliable!
As usual, click on the picture below
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