We flew to Denver and started by spending a day with Babs before driving up into the mountains and on the Avon for the first part of our ski trip. We were staying at the Sheraton Mountain Vista Resort which is at the bottom of the Beaver Creek ski area. The hotels was great and we had a good sized suite that had everything we could possibly need including a grill on the balcony which we put to good use.
We spent most of the days here skiing between Beaver Creek, Arrowhead, and Bachelor Gulch and the weather was very mixed although we could ski everyday. Some days were clear and sunny but bitterly cold, as low as -10C some days, and on other days it snowed non-stop and was (slightly) warmer. Either way the skiing here as always was great and the resort was very quiet. We took a couple of days out while we were there and went the Breckenridge one day and spend another day in and around Avon and Vail. We had planned to Ski an Copper, Keystone and Vail but it was difficult to plan trips outside the valley as there were constatnt sever weather warnings in effect which were always pointing towards a high risk that the passes would be snowed out, which they were a few times, so we didn't want to get stuck in the wrong valley!After we left Avon we headed up to Steamboat Spring where we met up with John, Dave and Rick from New York, and Deborah and Mark from Denver. We had all rented a condo so we spent the rest of the first day settling in and catching up one with what we'd all been doing for that last 3 years which was the last time we'd all skied together.
The weather conditions here were much the same as they had been the previous week to begin with but we have a lot a fresh snow - about 10 inches per day - and did end up with a couple of really nice days to finish off the trip. It was tremendous fun sharing condo and we had a lot of laughs together - hopefully we'll do it all again next year. All the pictures are hereHere's a short animoto video of our trip...
