While DD & Y hit the slopes before us this year, we did go pretty early. Storms rolled through with blankets on the peaks (and '21 snowpack well above average), a couple of inches of fresh, and a good environment for Keystone's excellent snowmaking. We had a blast ripping the right side, left side, center of the family fun run, Schoolmarm. It wasn't taxing on the legs but we did score some vert; this even though we had to download on the gondala because the lower part of the mountain is not yet open. Colder than expected but plenty fun. I met Wyatt Johnson (a classmate of Matt's and a former goalie for me) there who is now a liftie supervisor... he looked well.
We were excited to see the lone Keystone brewery, Steep, open up a taproom & kitchen in a prime spot in River Run where Spoon used to be. Duh... we stopped in and Steve enjoyed the brown while I had a nice hazy DIPA. They still brew at the other location but this looks like a big bet for them ~ $8 pints pricing may recoup that pretty fast though.
To keep up with DeBalski, Brown and most of the industry, I did buy some "new" super-coverage edge-to-edge goggles. I found some decently reviewed Native (CO company) googles which normally were $200 but available for $60, as they are existing the goggle market, so I got them. Fit is decent medium face right for me and I scored a bunch of lenses with them too, to cover our variety of light conditions. They look massive on my tiny melon but whatever. Proof will be in the field of course as anti-fog and good viz are key but yeah, I entered the 21st century.
Steve has installed some Arlo cams like others in Summit Co and after we left for homes he caught this fat (ready to hibernate) black bear amble through our cul-de-sac. Very cool - I've not seen a bear in Summit f2f before.
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