PowBah at Aspen-Snowmass

More, very boring, basic field note style descriptions of our field season. Although not interesting prose, I like to at least keep notes like this to aid my memory in the future. 

Also, because I'm weird and keep statistics on random things, here are our stats for the winter

Elisha skied 73 Days
(46 days at Snowmass, 3 at Aspen Highlands, 3 at Ajax (Aspen Mtn), 1 at Buttermilk, 3 backcountry ski tours, 4 days at Vail/Beaver Creek, 10 cross-country ski days, 3 uphill ski days at Snowmass)

Travis skied 101 Days
(43 at Snowmass, 14 at Aspen Highlands, 8 at Ajax, 1 at Buttermilk, 5 snowboard days at Snowmass, 6 backcountry ski tours, 4 days at Vail/Beaver Creek, 10 cross-country ski days, 10 uphill ski days at Snowmass)

1/10
Cross-country skied a loop near Independence Pass, and also skied part of Independence Pass.

1/11
Skied snowmass

1/12
Skied snowmass

1/13
Skied snowmass. Had an interview for a job with Colorado Parks and Wildlife

1/14
Skied Aspen Highlands, including a couple laps of the highland bowl

1/15
Skied Snowmass. Doctors appointment in Avon for my Arizona Game and Fish job. Elisha saw a dentist on our way home b/c of very bad tooth pain

1/16
XC skied Aspen High School Loop

1/17
XC skied snowmass golf course

1/18
Snowboarded at Snowmass

1/19
Skied Snowmass

1/20
Skied Snowmass

1/21
Skied Aspen

1/22
Skied Aspen Highlands

1/23
Ski toured up Snowmass (powder day!)

1/24
Ski tour up Snowmass (more powder)

1/25
Skied Snowmass (pow day)

1/26
Skied Snowmass (pow day)

1/27
Skied Snowmass (pow day)

1/28
Skied Highlands (pow day)

1/29
Skied Aspen.  Also watched the x-games, which are held in Aspen at Buttermilk

1/30
Ski tour Snowmass (pow day)
Also fireworks and x-games watching

1/31
Ski tour Snowmass

2/1
Skied Snowmass

2/2
Skied Snowmass, then drove to Avon to meet our good Antarctic buddy Mitch, the original Powder Brotha

2/3
Skied Vail. There was heavy snow by the end of the day. Fun Happy Hour with Mitch

2/4
Skied Vail. Big powder day (20")  Though Snowmass had gotten over 30"

2/5
Skied Beaver Creek (powder day). It felt cool to be back at my original ski bum resort and to show Elisha around

2/6
Ski tour Snowmass (powder day)

2/7
Skied Snowmass (pow day)

2/8
Started my new job with Colorado Parks and Wildlife as a Wildlife Technician. It was a really hard decision to do this b/c I knew that it meant that I would not get to ski as much as before. As it was currently, I had 2 full days of weekday skiing, 3 half days of weekday skiing. On weekends we couldn't ride the lifts b/c our pass was just for weekdays, but I could skin up and then ride the lifts if I wanted. (We worked Sunday-Wednesday noon until 9pm). But I ended up taking the job b/c I could get close to the same amount of skiing. I bought the discounted to employees weekend pass, so that I could ski 3 full days a week since I worked Mon-Thurs at Colorado Parks and Wildlife

2/10
Skied Aspen (powder day)

2/13
Skied Aspen Highlands (powder day)

2/14
Valentine's Day. We skinned up Snowmass together, then we drove to Marble, CO to check it out, soaked in Penny Hot Springs , then had take-out Mexican

2/17
My brother came to visit

2/19
Bro and I skied Aspen Highlands. We hit lots of fresh stuff in the recently opened no-name bowl. Ice skating and drinks with mom at Base Village. Thai take-out for dinner

2/20
Ski toured Snowmass with Bro. Mom and Elisha XC skied in Aspen

2/21
Skied Aspen (pretty big powder day)

2/26
Skied Aspen. Still lots of powder, especially on Traynor Ridge. Happy hour at Aspen Brewing Company.

2/27
Really great Powder Day at Snowmass

2/28
Skied Aspen. Lots of powder still left on the double black "dumps"

3/1
Skied Snowmass

3/5
Skied Aspen Highlands (small powder day). Carried lunch and beers to have the Summit of the Highlands Peak hike on a gorgeous bluebird day.

3/8
Skied Snowmass

3/9
Skied Snowmass (big powder day)

3/13
Skied Snowmass. And hot tubbed in the beautiful falling snow. Our lodging as a hot tub, but one of our friends in the complex right next to us has an even nicer hot tub that we use.

3/14
Skied Aspen Highlands. Big powder day. Soaked again in the hot tub in the snow

3/15
Great powder day at Snowmass

3/19
Skied beautiful bluebird dat at Vail. Great dat in the legendary backbowls! Après ski in Vail Village

3/20
Skied Aspen Highlands

3/21
Amazing powder day at Snowmass

3/24
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G powder day at Highlands. No people at all!

3/26
Skied at Highlands

3/27
Sweet pow day at Snowmass

3/28
Skied at Highlands

3/29
Skied at Snowmass

3/30
Saw a doctor in Carbondale and was diagnosed with a hernia caused from lifting bear traps

4/2
Skied Snowmass

4/3
Skied Aspen Highlands. Ski patrol was giving out free grilled hot dogs up near the summit of Highlands Bowl

4/4
Skied Snowmass. I was the Easter Bunny, which was a bit stressful, but better after our boss Sarah got us some drinks. Then it was easier to dance as the bunny. I also wore the bunny suit to do a couple of ski runs and to do some jumps in the terrain park

4/8
Last day of work at Colorado Parks and Wildlife

4/9
Skied Snowmass

4/10

Skied Snowmass, including doing some backcountry. My last day. So sad. What a wonderful ski season! So amazing. I loved it so much!

4/11
Mom came to Snowmass to help us pack up and drive to Estes.