FRESH POW, Powder Skiing, Copper Mountain Colorado, 05Mar2013

[POW: Ski culture vernacular for powder snow.  This isn’t about gun control.]

It SHOULD have been a powder day.  Snowfalls have been better recently:

There was a brief but fierce  blizzard in Summit County yesterday (Mon. 4Mar2013) with 2 major pile-ups on I-70 just a couple of miles from here, one with 25 cars and another with 29 cars.

I was in such a hurry to get to the ski area I actually drove PAST the Starbucks where I almost always stop (22s video with music):

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Oh wait.  That was on my way to Winter Park 13 February.  It was still COLD skiing there (as it was Copper Mountain & Winter Park Skiing Update, Ski Apps and Run Tracking, 29 Jan-7 Feb 2013 ).

[Winter Park 13 February.  Click on any photo to open the slideshow.  Click the X in the upper left to return.]:

Color photo on a gray, black and white day.

Riding the Challenger chair next to the Sleeper ski run.

Tilt!

At the top of the Super Gauge and High Lonesome chairlifts.

All of this photo group was taken at Winter Park on 13 Feb.

The top of Parsenn Bowl, above 12,000 feet, and the Panoramic lift is in the distance.

These photos were shot with my iPhone5.

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Stats for the day:

On 13 Feb. I burned about 1480 calories during the ski day. (If only I could eat less than 1470!)

General stats for the day were 13 runs, 13,931 feet of vertical.

My tracks around the ski resort.

Summary altitude and speed info for 13 Feb.

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FINALLY, a 3-5″ powder day at Copper Mountain on 14 February.  We are SO desperate for soft snow:

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The Ski Tracks app by corecoders.com has a cross-country skiing option.  Feb. 20th I used it at the Raven Golf Course at Three Peaks in Silverthorne:

The Cross-country tracker option.

20 Feb. summary stats.

Speed and altitude. There was one good downhill at the beginning!

My golf course cross-country lap.

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What about that Mar. 5th powder day at Copper?!?!  Ahh, there lies the rub.  To be continued… lest you get to BORED!