Third day at Beaver Creek Mountain

The third day the club recommendation was to take a $5 (each way) bus ride to Beaver Creek, about 20 minutes away. We thought it would be fun to try a different mountain so we went.

The village there is very quaint. I reminds me very much of the village in Whistler. The facilities were very nice and we got up the mountain as quickly as possible to enjoy the snow. The weather forecast called for temperatures in the 50s so we wanted to get as many runs in before it got all slushy.

The first few runs were on "corduroy" and weren't too bad. The runs at Beaver Creek are mostly big and wide and most of them were well groomed. The couple runs we got on that weren't groomed where hard and chunky so we avoided them until the warm sun softened them up a bit. A mountain photographer recommended a run called "cataract" which turned out to be our favorite. It was wide, well groomed and VERY steep. It was a lot of fun.

The other highlights were when we let "Spiderman" lead and he led us to a double black diamond run. It was pretty much as steep as "Cataract" but was covered in messy moguls. It took a while but the guys got down ok with a few nice falls here and there. Lily decided to take the human snow plow approach.

Here too we found a large bronze animal and we felt compelled to continue our little tradition. As Mark was taking the picutre a man came by and made suggestions for "alternate poses" then asked if we had ever been to Snowbasin near Utah where they have a huge bronze Moose. I guess we're not alone in abusing bronze animals.

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