Aunt M came out to ski with M over her spring break. The original plan was to pick her up from the airport, get rentals and head to Eldora for a half day of skiing. Then home for the night and after dropping me off with a ride to school heading to Copper, SMR for the night and Winter Park the third day. However, the snow was so good at Copper and the passes still had days at Copper for the season that we decided to head back to Copper a second day and skip Winter Park.
Last time we skiied Copper, we were intent on staying at the top of the hill so didn't have a lot of variety. However that day had tons of new snow so we didn't mind so much. This time around we carried our lunch with us and skiied without a map and just went were the slopes took us. We found a lot of great skiing and some not so great snow on the backside so only stayed there for 2 runs before heading back to the main slopes and good snow.
We ended up lunching at the same lodge both days. It had an Hawaiian theme decor. Sitting under the umbrella watching the other skiiers was a great way to spend an hour break.
I didn't fall much, but one of my better ones was in the deep powder just off trail and for the life of me could not get my skis back under me again.
I decided to "treat" M to the newest accommodations at SMR. The yurts are a circular hut with canvas sides. No heat in the winter, but we brought sleeping bags and since it had electricity we brought a little space heater, which we had to turn off by midnight because it was getting too hot.
We could look out the skylight and watch the stars and moon pass in the night.
We left early morning on Saturday in order to get to the ski hill before it opened. So just as the sun was coming up we gathered our stuff to leave. Our yurt was in the middle of the picture, with the communal bathhouse the building with the porch light on. Aunt M said she would stay again, so it must have been okay accomodations!
We had great roads to the ski hill and ate breakfast quickly in the car, used the restrooms in the parking lot, so when we got to the base, the lift had only been opened less than 5 minutes. We got right up to the top of the hill and realized that we would be the first ones down one of the runs!! What a great way to start the day--fresh powder and making the first tracks!
We stayed on the blue runs most of the morning, enjoying the fresh powder. One thing we enjoyed most about Copper was the amazing tree runs we found. We spent a fair amount of time weaving in and out among the trees.
One of our favorite tree runs. It got really wide at the bottom and had steep sides, so it felt a little like being in a superpipe. It is about the only run that we repeated since we could get to it for about 5 different runs. Saturday mid-morning we got over there again and found that we would be the first one in! So excuse the bouncing of the camera as I was skiing and filming at the same time--just enjoy the thrill of the fresh powder!!
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