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The snow has been falling in Steamboat finally!  We’ve received some new snow to help with the lack of snow this season but today with my limited ride time I just headed to the park and convinced Chris to join in.  We haven’t been able to ride together in such a long time that I [...]

There are two types of weather days in Steamboat:  Dumping powder or bluebird skies.  We rarely get overcast and we even more rarely get rain.  For some reason today on the slopes was overcast but not snowing on the lower mountain and the snow conditions were dust on crust so not the most fun.
I headed [...]

Tuesdays are the day that I can spend the morning doing the daily blog for the mountain which is great because it means waking up to the chairlift and usually I get to enjoy some turns by myself barely any people on the slopes.
Today the weather didn’t look like it’d cooperate, another socked in cloudy [...]

It’s been a tough winter to wake up early where there is no new snowfall on the mountain but that also means weekends are spent getting stuff done before I head up for the day.  Today I had time to wax and scrape my boards which was much needed with the slushy slow snow on [...]

Yesterday I received a call from the local newspaper that they had been recommended to use me in a local piece in the upcoming Steamboat magazine for next winter.  I was pretty amazed that my name was tossed around (thanks Jon!) and the article was on local’s favorite runs/parts of the mountain.  It meant today [...]

It’s hard to imagine that winter is almost over, March has arrived which is my favorite month of winter but also means there are less days on the slopes soon.  I’ve had an amazing winter so far and today everything felt good, cranked the music, lapped the mountain in the early morning and then was [...]

I’ve been enjoying sundays this year since it’s generally my one day to sleep in before getting up on the slopes.  Today was another late start to the mountain but I made it just in time for the afternoon to enjoy the extended spring hours for the chairlifts.  Now I can ride till 4:30pm each [...]

I was planning to stay in Steamboat through the weekend but on Thursday Ryan informed me that Burton would be at Breckenridge with 10-11 gear doing a private demo for the day and I could come swing by to try some of the boards.
I ended up driving down to Breckenridge Friday night to hang out [...]

The best thing about Steamboat is even if it’s a powder day and you aren’t able to get up in the morning, you can still find some in the afternoon to enjoy.  My friend Erik from Summit County drove up for his first day at Steamboat so I told him where to go on the [...]

I love the days when I get the phone call from a friend saying it’s time to shred together.  Today was that day, got the call from Philip and twenty minutes later we were hitting the slopes for my ride break.

Steamboat received a couple new inches which meant there was some good powder in the [...]