Since Elaine and I ski a bunch and also happen to work in a backcountry ski shop, with access to a fair bit of gear (don't hate, the pay ain't great!), I figured this would be a good forum for… Continue reading

We’ve had a few tired days…Thursday and Friday we managed a few hours up at Eldora each day, but nothing too exciting. (Hey, it’s Eldora, with about three runs open. But we did check out Bunny Fair Bowl – sick,… Continue reading

Straight off the Eldora website as of 8 pm Thursday night…"The Eldora Nordic Center opens this Saturday." Stoked! Continue reading

Tuesday morning dawn patrol, -19° wind chill. Nederland, Colorado is not the best skiing location in the world. You know those perfect images of softly falling snow, deep powder runs, perfect aspen trees and blue skies? Yeah, those don't happen… Continue reading

Sunday night in west Boulder Country. What a turnaround! What was the slowest starting ski season I've ever seen suddenly has taken a massive positive leap forward. It started snow Friday and it hasn't really stopped. Nothing huge, but it's… Continue reading

I’m not going to say I was super amped when Dan suggested at 10 pm last night that we head up to A-Basin for the 7 am start of a race. Heck, the Irwin race just got canceled, I was… Continue reading

A lazy evening at the shop listening to Christmas music, talking skis with the occassional Monday customer, waiting for snow. It seems like there's been a lot of waiting his winter. We still essentially have no snow, something I've never… Continue reading

Morning ski, watch World Cup skiing over cocoa at Tin Shed, long afternoon nap, sunset run and ski exercises, feast of a meal tonight at the bosses Christmas dinner. A good day! Continue reading

Team Mammoth Slayers has secured an entry into this year's Elk Mountain Traverse. Round 2 here we go! Let it snow buckets and buckets! Continue reading