2006 - Vail

Stayed at: Vail Racquet Club

Conditions:

Day 1 - Cloud/Flurries with a foot of new snow from past 3 days.
Day 2 - Mogul day at Beaver Creek. Cloudy with snow coming.
Day 3 - Snow. End of day skied in a blizzard. Lots of untracked in Mongolia bowl.
Day 4 - Sun, 5" new for untracked morning & mogul afternoon. An all time "top 5" day.

First, there was the required March timeframe due to Frankel's school schedule. Then, there was no snow in February for weeks. But with a $79 fare to Denver (albeit with a 3:30am mountain time arrival on Sat), and a $8.99 daily jeep rental (!!), things were looking up. The snow came, and came, and came, and then the sun came out. Probably our best 4 days of skiing ever. We learned that it is possible to do Vail without spending a fortune - food was great and not overly expensive. Next time, check vailonsale.com for better deals on condos?? Not much you can do about breaking the $80 lift ticket threshold though ($81).

And what's with the new work ethic??

First cellphone videos taken this year (bad quality): Tree Skiing, and some powder photos