Colorado Ski Trip – 2017

Copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale

We just completed our annual ski trip to Vail, Colorado. We drove out from Southern California with Zach and met up with Chad in Vail, who came up from Denver. Drive out through California, Nevada, Utah and then into Colorado was breath taking as usual, but no stopping on the way for photographs. What I have noted over the years is that the places I would be interested in stopping to photograph there are no safe or easily accessible passage ways. Drive back was equally beautiful, but different weather conditions; overcast, drizzly and sometime snow-showers, but all the hills were turning green due to the recent rain.

This year with the increased snow, the skiing was just about perfect; clear blue sky (makes it much easier to see the bumps on the hill with the yellow tint googles), temperature in the high 30’s (F), and no wind. We skied out legs off! Regretfully at the end of the week I started hot-dogging and now have a colorful bruised hip to show for it.

Photo above was on the slopes of Vail, while below is Gore Creek that flows through Vail, below that was during the drive we took to ski at Copper Mountain one day, them skiing at Vail and finally a view out our window of our place. Really nice change from Southern California, as we came to visit the snow, not to stay.

Cheers!