Friday 01/24


It was a Blue Bird morning. While there wasn’t any new snow overnight, the snow sparkled from the day before. We knew it was going to great ski day. As it turned out, we were not the only ones that knew that. The traffic reports were already indicating that it was taking over 2 hours to travel the 40 miles from Idaho Springs to the Eisenhower tunnel. Around 9:30am, we left for Copper Mtn and as we got closer, we knew the resort was going to be jam packed with skiers. There was already several thousand cars in the parking lot and they were sending the overflow across the highway to the Far East area. This was the same situation on Martin Luther King day. As we arrived in the East Village section of the mountain, we were totally surprised that the number of skiers wasn’t equal  to the number of cars we saw. One of the resort instructors told us that they had just opened a new section of the mountain, on the other side with a new lift called the “Three Bears Lift “. This was great news for us. The outside restaurant by the Timberline lift was crowded with skiers having lunch and we also saw the snow cats re-grooming the terrain for a snow boarders event next weekend. Yes it was a GREAT day skiing.  


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