What is better than a blue bird pow day in Colorado?

Is there any thing better than a blue bird powder day in Colorado? I think not! if you ever have the chance to go and shred a pow day in Colorado with a blue bird sky you should definitely go out there and give it a shot. When you wake up in the morning when it just dumped in Colorado you see the mountains pop up over the mountains and you can see your breath it is so cold. When the sky has no clouds in it and the sun is just bright and you can see every thing you don't half to guess where all the unmarked obstacles. When one thing that helps on a bluebird day is to wear no face mask and get a narly goggle tan. This will make you look like you have been getting down skiing. It is one of the best feelings in the world to just rip threw some deep powder that just flows over you and all you can do is laugh and have the best time of your life. Even if you fall so hard that you think you will get hurt but it is just fun and it feels like you are falling in a pillow. Then when you get up out of the deep powder you just look up to see what happened and a huge smile just breaks on to your face and you just laugh. Or when you hit a jump and then you land the powder just explodes around you and you just have that awesome feeling of just popping out of that powder and just keep riding. But when that powder is gone it is a sad sight but don't you worry if we all pray to the snow gods and maybe burn some old skis for the Uller God so we can get some more fresh powder.  
  But even when there is no sun out and it is dumping that is also a wonderful feeling it is like magic when you see all those snow flakes falling every where and it is starting to pile up the powder. It is truly magical when it snows to me it is one of the best thing that i can see when i walk out my door. And when you are in the backcountry it is so quite and so peaceful that it is the best thing in the world all the  trees collect snow and it makes the best scene ever. But if you go to Colorado Mountain College, And if you live here you will see all the snow and scenes of the mountains that you will remember forever. You walk out your door and all the snow is pilled up on your car and you have to wipe off all the snow. And you just turn your defrost on all the way and drink your hot coffee while you drive to the mountain and just ready to go shred. If you have never skied Colorado champagne powder you better get out here because it is the best thing ever and like warren miller says " if you don't do it this year you will be one year older when you do".


Calvin Taylor

I won’t tell you how to run your life, you don’t tell me how to run my ski area!

An article Should Ski Areas Expand When Skier Numbers Are Flat? Raises some interesting questions. However I’m not sure those are questions the public should be asking.

The Ski Area Citizens’ Coalition is saying that ski areas should not be expanding their terrain when the number of skiers is not growing. Basically the Ski Area Citizens’ Coalition is grading ski areas on their environmental footprint and expansion is a negative aspect of their score card. They are then tying its grade to the lack of growth in the number of skiers coming to resorts.

Resorts who receive a good grade are happy with it and resorts who receive a bad grade found fault with the grading system. I had the same response all throughout my formal education.

Grading anyone on its sustainability, its environmental concerns are great. I try and check those issues when I deal or make a purchase from some companies. However tying it into an economic issue, when most resorts are making money is a little lame.

This is different from the National Ski Area Association’s Sustainable Slopes Program which grades ski areas on their environmental score card.

What do you think? Leave a comment.

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Colorado Avalanche Information Center

Hello-

Starting this season, we will no longer require a donation to receive forecasts via email. From now on you can get all of our mountain weather and avalanche products on the web, phone line via Twitter, or email for free. We have wanted to make this change for quite some time. It is a financial gamble for us, but we feel it is the right thing to do. Avalanche safety information should be free and readily available to everyone that needs it.

This change, and all the new features for the 2011-2012 season will move to our live website next week. This is later than we would like, but testing the features has taken longer than we expect. As a result, many of you received a renewal notice this week. I am sorry that this message went out and for the confusion it caused. We have extended everyone’s subscriptions, so you will keep getting the emails you were signed up for last season. By Thanksgiving everyone will be able to sign up for a free account so they can send us observations and get forecasts via email.

We still need your financial support. Although our funding appears to be stable, these are hard times for everyone and no one knows the future of any government program. Backcountry use in our state increases every year and we are constantly trying to provide a better service. Please support the Friends of the CAIC through one of their events, make a donation through their website or donate directly to the CAIC through the Geological Survey's website. You can always send comments, suggestions and donations to:

CAIC
325 Broadway WS1
Boulder, CO 80305
caic@qwestoffice.net

Thank you for all of your support in the past and I hope the services we provide continue to deserve your support now and in the future.

Ethan Greene
Director, CAIC

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Smart Style Business Card

Great Idea, I want it to work

I picked up a Smart Style card that is business card size someplace. It has the Smart Style logos on one side so you can recognize the Smart Style signs.

Smart Style was developed by the National Ski Area Association and Burton Snowboards and is a great program. In fact, it is a program that has worked and teenagers know about it.

On the back is the Smart Style info:

·         Make a Plan

·         Look Before you Leap

·         Easy Style It

·         Respect gets Respect

Someone should be handing these out at the parks. You’ll probably pick up a lot of them at the end of the day on the slope, (they’ll fall out of pants hanging low) but if one more rider or skier catches the drift, someone may be hurt less.

I’m not saying go home, I’m saying getting hurt because you are dumb is stupid. (Great line!) Getting hurt because you know what you are doing and something does not work right is different than blasting over a jump and missing the landing or hitting another person.

What do you think? Leave a comment.

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