Accounting of A-basin – 10/23/04

I was in Boulder for a wedding, so I was planning to ride Saturday morning at wherever and on whatever. My brother finishing up his undergrad degree at Boulder so we rolled up early and arrived around 8:30 am just as they loaded the lift.

One run, one lift, perfect temp…..BLUE SKIES, NO WIND! A beautiful day indeed.

It was extremely crowded, and took around 45 minutes or so to do a lap. It seemed that the whole world showed up to ski one run. It was pretty hard, bumpy, and granular, with the bottom section being the smoothest and the only section to let the skis rip a little. Ended up taking around 6 runs, enjoyed an O’doul’s on the sundeck and then took a run down Loveland Pass on the way back. I hiked up about 3/4ths the way to the top and skied some pretty good fresh for the first couple hundred feet but it was still extremely rocky….but hey its not bad at all for October, and on all natural snow.

Music: Photek & Fabio-No Joke

Early morning Loveland Pass:

A-basin, needs some more flakes:

View of the upper mountain:

The very short lift-line:

My bro rollin’ hard, rollin’ gangsta:

My buddy on tele gear ripping the shit out of the 65 degree couloir, also the best part of THE RUN:

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