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Earlier this week I watched as friends from Tahoe came down to enjoy the recent snowfall with a jib sesh and came back totally stoked on the snow.   I didn’t make it out with them but realized today I should head to the snow before it melts.  You can call today Shay’s-unsuccessful-jib-sesh. I put [...]

With the Colorado shred season underway now that two mountains are open, it’s definitely the time of the year that my free days are spent on the mountain.  Saturday was the perfect day to drive down from Steamboat with friends for an afternoon of shredding.  We had a minor glitch in the plans when we [...]

Well I hope everyone had a great dinner last night, I know my fridge is packed full of leftovers so I’ll be enjoying turkey sandwiches all week. Yesterday I heard that Copper’s superpipe would be open today and planned to wake up early to drive down to Copper. I woke up and found that it [...]

Amy and I drove down to ride Copper today.  It turned out to be a busy day on the slopes but a beautiful day out with demos to choose from.  Every ride up the chair, I checked out the mound of snow soon to be Copper’s halfpipe.  Copper usually has the first halfpipe in the [...]

Saturday night I attended the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) benefit in Breckenridge which was great, I’ll have more on the benefit later.  A couple of us crashed in Frisco so we could ride today. After dealing with the long lines and mess of people yesterday, I was looking forward to Loveland today. For those [...]

The morning started out at A-Basin where I met up with Becky and Bru to ride for the day.  We expected that A-Basin would be less crowded than the openings of Breck and Keystone.   It is a bummer that Vail Resorts only allowed their employees to ride at A-basin when Breck and Keystone were [...]

This morning we turned the clocks back one hour which always makes it interesting when you plan to meet your friends in the morning.   Luckily we managed to all meet with the time changing and get on the road to hit up Loveland for the day. I carpooled down with Amy, John and Jakub. [...]

I stayed true to my word last night that I wouldn’t choose drinking over riding.  Halloween was a fun time here in Steamboat Springs with friends but I made sure to get the cab ride home at midnight so today I’d spend it on the mountain instead of hungover and tired from partying.   Unfortunately [...]

We were planning to ride A-Basin today but with such a beautiful day and less people at Loveland yesterday, we ended up back at Loveland.  It was a definitely busier today but still more ride time than lift line time.   The view of Loveland surrounding people strapping in.   The lift lines weren’t too [...]

I’ve been babying my ankle all week so I could ride, even with some tenderness and swelling still going on.  Luckily a wrapped ankle and some advil helped during snowboarding today. The easy choice was Loveland; no lines and 2 runs are now open offering up more terrain.   I picked up Tom and we [...]