This is the beginning of a tradition which, I hope, will stay for ever! My best mates, Eric and Frank, will be spending about a week in the Colorado. On the menu: ski, ski, ski and ski!!! It's so cool that they could both come over here!!
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| Frank and Eric in NY...a short stop over before the crazy week in the Rockies!!! |
The first destination will definitely remains in each of our memories: STEAMBOAT!!! It is quite a long way to go there from home...about 4 hours!! And the weather did not help us much!!
The road to Steamboat is really amazing and the amount of snow that fell that day was just unbelievable: 70 cm of fresh snow...and WE were there!!!
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| Road to Steamboat... |
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| 70cm (28 inches) of powder!!!...and more to come!! |
If you want to ski in the wild and in an amazing, light snow powder, you must go to Steamboat!! There is an unbelievable slope called "Shadow" where you basically ski / snowboard in "Aspen trees". This is simply magical!!
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| The "Shadow" in Steamboat...magical in 70cm of fresh powder!! |
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| "La fine équipe" all geared up and ready to face the snow storm!! |
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| ...ok, relaxing for a while on a lift... |
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| View on Steamboat valley from the restaurant on top...nice isn't??? |
We decided to spend the night in Steamboat as Eric was suffering a little bit of the altitude. Too bad for him, he had to give up almost half day (stuck at the restaurant) and we did not enjoy the night life much, beside a dinner at an italian restaurant.
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| "Jack", not feeling so well... |
Following this memorable day, we headed in two other resorts: WinterPark and Copper Mountain. We had really great ski too...but Steamboat was still the best. Too bad that we only stay for one day!!!
I had planned some other activities at "Denver's ground level" and on the 22nd February we all went to the Pepsi Center to see the "Avalanche" vs the "Los Angeles Kings". For once, we had planned a baby sitter, and both Wai Leng and I had a great night out!!
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| Our "flash seat" ticket!!! |
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| Wai Leng and me at the Pepsi Center!! |
The plan was a fourth day of ski but due to the really bad weather, all roads going West, up in the mountains were closed and the GPS did not have much alternatives...
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| 06:05 hours of road...usually it takes about 2hours to go to Copper Mountain!!! |
...so half way through, we decided to go to Fort Collins, home of the"New Belgium Brewery":
The Colorado has hundreds of breweries...but this one was really a cool one to visit!!
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| A wide selection of beers... |
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| One of the many reasons why the "Fat Tire Ale" is called so... |
7 days were way to short...so we decided to renew this experience in 2013...so stay tuned for more adventure!!!
