Very awesome bowl in the back. Access is by cat and then a hike. Definitely worth the effort. Power last a long time up there due to the work. Remember powder skis, powder strings, backpack for skis. GPS, cellphone and avalanche stuff wouldn't hurt either. Worth going back to.

Huge mountain with a lot of options. Found some unreal pow pow off ptarmigan ridge. Great run all the way down to the chair without much hiking. A must do on the next visit. GPS would help to find the chair from the closed area which would yield another 15-20 turns and less walking out. This was waist deep powder 4 days from the last snow fall (6"). A real find, I hope no one reads this blog. Cascade also has some pow due to the lack of traffic but it is low and was a bit heavy.

Very awesome bowl in the back. Access is by cat and then a hike. Definitely worth the effort. Power last a long time up there due to the work. Remember powder skis, powder strings, backpack for skis. GPS, cellphone and avalanche stuff wouldn't hurt either. Worth going back to.

Snowmass was a nice surprise. Found some awesome pow pow off the high alpine chair via a hike up to the wall. Hike was a lot of work but felt good to reach the top. Next day skied the campground chair. Great gladed pow pow. After 2 days it was clear that this mountain has a lot to offer. No lines. Lots of fun stuff with freshies avail after 3 days without snow. Skied mainly of the low speed chairs but was not bothered. Guess I'm getting old.

Take the powder tour. A good place to go if you are ski in, ski out.

Skied on the Solomon X Wing. Great ski for the pow pow. Soft shovel and nice flotation. Works ok on the groomers too but wouldn't want it if I wasn't in search of freshies.

Skied on the Volkl AC3 Unlimited 163cm. Great ski on the groomers. Very trustworthy. Can rock without getting too out of control. Liked its performance on the pow as well. Not as good as having a big flotation and a soft shovel but had no complaints (who complains in the pow). Went with a 27.0 Dabello boot which is the right size.

Skied on the Solomon X Wing. Great ski for the pow pow. Soft shovel and nice flotation. Works ok on the groomers too but wouldn't want it if I wasn't in search of freshies.

Skied on the Volkl AC3 Unlimited 163cm. Great ski on the groomers. Very trustworthy. Can rock without getting too out of control. Liked its performance on the pow as well. Not as good as having a big flotation and a soft shovel but had no complaints (who complains in the pow). Went with a 27.0 Dabello boot which is the right size.

Skied on the Solomon X Wing. Great ski for the pow pow. Soft shovel and nice flotation. Works ok on the groomers too but wouldn't want it if I wasn't in search of freshies.

This is my current location.

Skiing the pow pow left over from yesterday night. In the trees all day with freshies all over the place. Sunny and 0 degrees. What could be better.

http://maps.BlackBerry.com?lat=39.20434&lon=-106.97974&z=2

In Aspen at the Grand Hyatt. About to ski on Volkl AC3 and Dalbello 26.5. Worried that the boots are too small. May change them before I start.

Ischgl [Alex]
So as the nisk just said, its 2am and we just got back from our 3rd dinner in as many nights with our sweedish friends. Were looking forward to our last day of skiing before we hit Vienna. All I can say is that the skiing is incredible here but in a different way than whistler. Here there is less snow but the temp is 10 degrees at the peak. The one thing that makes life here very enjoyable is the night life, everyone is friendly (probably cause they are drunk but none the less), and time never seems to matter. The conditions are great, until you get to the bottom of the hill where there are 300 europeans all on one hill. It was crazy busy at the bottom of the slopes. We met a british women who got nailed at the bottom of the hill and brole her leg. That's why we download at the middle station.

Schmander

Atomic Izor Ltd 159cm 114 72 104 = 15 m radius. This is an awesome ski. Great in the pow pow, sun crust, wind crust, chunk, carpet, corn snow, sugar, etc.

Ischgl [Andrew Nisker]
Here iam. Yep, the back still throbs and the weather is clear blue. What is a guy to do?
So sad. Not mad really. Maybe I will drive the
Puegot through the tunnel near the resort for kicks today. For those of u looking for new biz ops. Set up a osteopath clinic here so guys like me can get some help! Oh how I wish my osteopath Jantet was here. Janet if u are reading this please come save me.

Right now I'm sandwiched btwn Alexander and
Andrew " I can sleep on demand" Rivkin.
The tiger balm and robax are kicking in so I might venture up the hill. At bfast a mere few moments ago, we discussed the what if nisker came skiing and threw his back out. Btm line
I would have to be carried down or as AR said with a glimmer in his eye, " maybe a heilcopter ride". It almost seemed like that's why they wanted me to join them, so they could ride in a chopper. Guess I will see how I feel after the post bfast nap. For now I can only dream of the day I skied the alps and pray that I will get that chance again. Really, don't feel sorry for me, atleast I'm not at work and I can still participate in apres ski.....

Ischgl [Alex and Andrew Rivkin]
So andrew r and I just got back to the notorious igloo. Now just to be a dick and to add to the igloo's wonderful liist of faults, the key doesn't work. That's just great the hotel gives its guests keys that probably only work for the room next door. After the 5th try the door finally opens. But befor we get to bed andrew had to fill the bath with hot water because its so dam dry in this hotel. For those of you in the pool take your money out as nisker will likely be skiing tomorrow. At dinner tonight we dined with 3 women from sweeden. And when we told him about the amazing ski he said that it didn't matter if he was in a wheel chair, he would come ski. He then told us the most boring storyt ever, and by us I mean the sweeds too. He told us about how he loved the tunnels and how cool they were. That was 5 minutes the 5 of us will never get back. I mean what guy loves fucking tunnels.

Goiing to sleep now,
Schmander

Went to Fire and Ice. Great apres ski and great club. People still parting in their ski gear at midnight. Coming back tomorrow.
Andrew Rivkin

Skiied in Solomon Rush 880 boots size 26.5 and Atomic Izor skiis. Great boots and skiis for all mountain skiing and variable conditions.

Ischgl [Andrew Rivkin]
Went out to Passage last night in Vienna. Neat club in an old subway station. Great house music. Stayed out till 5am then headed straight back to the room, grabbed our bags then off to the airport. Did not get to enjoy our room as much as we would have liked and definitely spent less time their than Mic Jagger and Michael Jackson.

Just barely made our flight as our cab driver would not heed our calls of 'max scnell, max schnell'.  The drive was beautiful but a bit hairy an commander alexender did a great job. And, now knows how to use a roundabout.

We are staying at the Hotel Solaria which is a 4 star. A substantial downgrade from last night but quaint and we will be very happy here.

Blueberry day today and the whether report looks good. Annette (our friend from the spa) says the skiing is good so things are looking great for tomorrow.

Hope honour's taps have shut down at the cottage.

Niskers comments on our travel plans...
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Subject:  For god sakes man I need...

For god sakes man I need to prepare my bavarian sexy time outfit!
Spring skiing attire?