Right after coming back from Montreal/Porsche Ice Force Experience, I flew home and joined Arturo's ski trip half way by flying to Aspen to join him. Thankfully my plane was able to land that day (which is not a given for Aspen):
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The next morning, we went to Aspen so that I could remind to Arturo that Aspen Mountain actually sucks and we should only go to Highlands or Snowmass. Still, since we were there, we snowboarded it to confirm it really wasn't a snowboarder mountain :)
if you miss one or 2 lifts kind of high up, you are stuck with going back to the bottom and taking the gondola back up
don't ask :)
nice view of the airport
We then went back to a restaurent we had been to years ago in Aspen. It wasn't quite the same level, but still good:
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The next morning we had a good amount of fresh snow, so we went to snowmass:
it's a bit of a bus ride
we started with campground
plenty of pow
Then, a "yellow jacket" appeared and messed things up. long story, had to go back to the bottom and wasted an hour and money, but that just allowed for more snow to fall and the powder to become bottomless:
KT Gully from the Cirque tow rope
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Third day was a bluebird, we went back to Snowmass since we knew there was plenty of powder left:
found this guy up top
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We then went up high alpine and did a couple of hanging valley runs before the side country gate closed:
