Training Day 1. Our hike up Beaver Creek mountain started as a way to kill a rainy afternoon. It seems as if mother nature has put the keibash on summer, and evidently it’s time for mud season again. A perfect chance to get some material for our new series of posts about training for ski [...]
Squats, yeah, 100′s of em. Hip thrusts. Jazzercise. Billy Blanks Cardio kickboxing. Zumba! Mmmmmmm…right. This is EVI and we aren’t gonna give it to you like that. If you like flying down a mountain on skis, we’ve been training for it by going up. Walking, hiking, trail running, biking…doesn’t matter, but get started. Gaining 2000+ [...]
Word to the George…could be a new shirt on the way.
Snapped a quick photo on a hike into the Gore the other day. The old man still has a good sized chunk of snow hanging tough in the 80 degree summer heat. A far cry from the towering wall of … Continue reading →
Seems like we skipped past spring and mud season all together as the past few days in Vail have felt like full on summer. 70 degree temps and bright blue skies are chasing the 500+ inches of snow up the hillside, looking harder and harder to get to each day. That is until you make [...]
This is a guest blog by EVI friend Big J from a Hut Trip to Ken’s Cabin… It started early that Monday April morning as we prepared to leave the island and drive over Vail Pass in aim for Breckenridge and the Boreas Pass area. I had purchased all the food, alcohol, and everything the [...]
Hey All – The EV season may be over, but all of us pow addicts know that the second season is in full swing and has potential to be one of the great spring seasons in recent history. DPS Dave, Brent the Lawyer, and yours truly took a trip over to A-Basin the Tuesday after [...]
Hey all, The hits just keep coming. Hit five hundred for the year and skied EV powder the latest I ever have, not a bare spot in sight. Blustery windy and dumping yesterday, the storm preceded by some good thunder the night before. Worried about stability issues as the high wind and warmer denser snow [...]
Hey all, The reports of EV demise are greatly exaggerated. Skied the old mans again yesterday, continuing the spring old mans addiction and found winter like snow conditions with the three or four inches of fresh snow. Continuing to keep the notch viable with the saw for those who dare venture in to ol mans. [...]
Going BIG off a 40 footer in the East Vail Chutes. DEEP powder turns and some trees round out the run. EVI friends Big J and DJ were along for the trip. Nas provides the soundtrack. Stay Calm and Move Along.
Hey all, Reporting after the latest storm blew through. Dumped eleven inches in a matter of hours on Sunday. Went to battle the cornice in Ol Mans Monday the entrance topping out at a ten foot drop, even with the help of the trusty ol G3 bone saw. The cornice to the skiers left of [...]
4/1 Hey all, EV skiing was truly funky. Did an Old Man’s, the new snow was like skiing two feet of mattress. The warm temps and high winds turned everything exposed into a glazed donut. Trees are still skiing well, with deep space funk snow. Graupel warning in effect as the little ball bearings were [...]
hey all, couple new blogs for ya, Like to see new people checking the site out. We are always looking for content, so if you have trip reports or pics you’d like to see on here, please let us know, shoot us an email. T Our third run to King A’s (now to be reffered [...]
Hey late season EV schralpers, Windy days in the Gore and EV the last few days with the storms that have rolled through. Went into the Bighorn drainage last week Tuesday to battle the isothermic snowpack held together with a top four inch crust layer. The warm weather the previous week resulted in water percolating [...]
Hey all, Been awhile for the posts, been a strange week. Two supposed eight inch dumps rolled through, the first with incredibly high winds. Spring has definitely sprung as the tops of benchie and old mans are skiing well with the new snow, but the lowers are scratchy and firm underneath as seemingly all our [...]
Hey all, Got an early Friday morning report from EV, nine new of the fluff and the sun has all the heavy hitters out early on big Fri. Seemed to be more snow west as this weird ass sw storm dumped rain then a late burst of snow Thurs night. Full on pow frenzy this [...]
Happy Saint Paddy’s Day all, Took a trip to EV yesterday in the building lenticular clouds and freshening SW breeze. It’s been downright hot the last few days as temps have been reaching into the fifties and sixties with S through E aspects fully corning up and lower elevations melting out completely. Had to check [...]
I gathered with my group at the Yeoman Park trailhead around 8:30 on Monday, March 7th for our hut trip to Carl’s Cabin. It is a beautiful wood hut six miles up in a great area below New York Mountain, near the Polar Star Inn. It may not offer the sweeping big mountain views of some [...]
