Weekend Of Summit Fun 19Jan18-21Jan18

I had the pleasure of hosting and skiing and enjoying other frivolity in the mountains this weekend. First off Yoho arrived Friday and we caught a nice dinner at the Bighorn in Keystone and The Motet in concert at Warren Station. Decent venue and a decent funk band... I was the oldest guy in the place.

Saturday there was no new snow and it was 50° in Silverthorne. We hit Breck for some skiing with Jim's friend Joel Rauser. Not much skiing with him really as we "passed in the night" and he left early. Yoho and I enjoyed a good pizza & beer at Sevens before checking out the Yurt at Outer Range. There was a problem at OR though as I had the last IPA on the board, and got one of the last pours of it - a tasty DIPA, so we switched to blacks, which also ran out. Dinner at Pho nearby wouldn't happen so we dined at the Nest from good Whole Foods buys.

The storm ultimately rolled in at mid-night on Sat and dropped 8" or so on Keystone by the time we arrived to meet BK & DD for a day of powder runs. Traffic was awful headed to KS and we ultimately used the shuttle lot to stop the agony. It was a very good ski day followed by an evening at the Nest with my mates. DD's mules were stellar and my apps and pizza was decent despite the Vikings not putting up a fight. Wilks even rolled in and we had five in the spa along with his nasty sandals - sheesh.

We hiked out from Outback chair into North Bowl - just before the ski patrol closed the hike. Here DD caught BK & me right before the descent. It was the best run of the day.