OPENING DAYS of Colorado ski resorts

Open and Close Dates for Colorado Ski Country 2012-13 Season

Courtesy of Coloradoski.com 

*All dates are based on snow conditions and are subject to change

Opening and Closing Dates:

Arapahoe Basin	Mid October 2012 -
Aspen Highlands	December 8, 2012
Aspen Mountain	November 22, 2012
Buttermilk	December 15, 2012
Copper Mountain	November 2, 2012
Crested Butte	November 21, 2012
Echo Mountain	December 5, 2012
Eldora	November 16, 2012
Howelsen Hill	December 1, 2012
Loveland	Mid October 2012
Monarch Mountain	November 21, 2012
Powderhorn	December 13, 2012
Purgatory at DMR	November 23, 2012
Silverton Mountain	December 1, 2012
Ski Cooper	November 22 – November 25, 2012 November 30 – December 2, 2012 December 7 – December 9, 2012 December 14, 2012
Ski Granby Ranch	December 12, 2012
Snowmass	November 22, 2012
Steamboat	November 21, 2012
Sunlight	December 7, 2012
Telluride	November 22, 2012
Winter Park	November 14, 2012
Wolf Creek	November 2, 2012

Sorted By Opening Day:

Mid October, 2012	Loveland, Arapahoe Basin
November 2, 2012	Wolf Creek, Copper Mountain
November 14, 2012	Winter Park
November 16, 2012	Eldora
November 21, 2012	Steamboat, Monarch, Crested Butte
November 22, 2012	Telluride, Aspen Mtn., Snowmass, Ski Cooper
November 23, 2012	Purgatory
December 1, 2012	Silverton, Howelsen
December 5, 2012	Echo Mountain
December 7, 2012	Sunlight
December 8, 2012	Aspen Highlands
December 12, 2012	Ski Granby Ranch
December 13, 2012	Powderhorn
December 15, 2012	Buttermilk

SNOW BUNNIES the season is coming, i promise (:

Oh yeah the the upcoming season is so close you can almost smell it. Well in this case you get to see it. My my, I love snow bunnies.
Here are the Hottest Girls In Snowsports curtsy of My Skool at EMAIL: team@snowskool.co.uk

Hottest girls in snowsports

Channelle Sladics
She skates, she surfs, and she just happens to be a professional snowboarder in her spare time.  Breaking onto the scene in 2005 with some back to back podium positions, Channelle made a big impact on the snowboarder world.  Growing up in S O, Cal, Channelle used to travel to the mountains on the weekends, and pushed herself to excel on the slippery white stuff (just like she has in the water and on the concrete). Turning heads in the terrain park, skate park, and any other park for that matter, Channelle is a kick ass rider and is sure to get the attention of any dude she passes.


Gretchen Bleiler
One of the most well-known women in the world of snowboarding,  Gretchen Bleiler has got it all. She won gold at the winter X games in 2010 and took away the silver medal in the women's half-pipe at the Vancouver Winter Olympics.  If that's not enough, Gretchen recently stripped off for FHM - showing that she's not only got it on the slopes!  A smoking hot body and world class athlete - does it get any better than that?


Linn Haug
Linn Haug ... this 21 year old Norwegian has been carving up our slopes since the age of 4.  With a Goofy stance and looks to die for, Linn has risen to prominence in world of professional snowboarding.  After winning her place in the Norweigian national team and the Burton Eurpean team in 2006, Linn's snowboarding career has blossomed to also include video and photo shoots - and we can see why.  Linn Haug is surely in the running for “ hottest girl in snowsports”


Lindsey Vonn
Linsey Vonn is arguably the best female Alpine ski racer on the circuit today having won 3 consecutive downhill championships ( 2008, 2009, 2010) - as well as being the first American women to achieve this.  At 28, Lindsey is slightly older than the others on this list - but we still feel she merits her place!


Grete Eliasen
Grete Eliassen is a 23 year old  professional freestyle skier from Salt Lake City, and an absolute hottie, balancing out the battle between skiing and snowboarding for who has the hottest girls.  Grete has won the X-games superpipe and U.S Open slopestyle multiple times . She has designed her own pro ski’s and featured in films in the backcountry. We all love a bit of powder but if there’s anything we like better, it’s a young, beautiful Norwegian skier who loves shredding in powder.






                                   AGAIN curtsy goes to MySkool

Top five best ski movie of 2011/2012

Well the season of 2011/2012 is over and another batch of good films came out that are worthy of acknowledgement. Whether you like park, big mountain or both then these are something you might consider.

Top 5 Ski Movies Best of 2011-2012

January 12th, 2012 Source: http://skigenie.com/ski-movies-2/top-5-ski-movies-best-of-2011-2012/  Here are the top 5 ski movies of 2012.  Check out the ski movie reviews, trailers, descriptions and cheapest price on the net:
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#1: Attack of La Nina (Match Stick Productions) - $27.95

#2: The Grand Bizarre (Poor Boyz) - $27.95

#3: After Dark (Level 1 Productions) - $24.95

#4: Wintervention (Warren Miller) - $15.99

#5: One for the Road (Teton Gravity Research) - $27.95

Lange ski boot marketing

Lange Girls

With the invention of the plastic ski boot in 1962, they easily exceeded the performance of then state-of-the-art leather ski boots. In 1970, the first Lange Girl poster appeared with the moniker “Soft Inside.” The poster would be the beginning of a seemingly endless line of sexy women wearing pretty much nothing but Lange ski boots. Lange made ski boots sexy in a way that no one else could.
Girls wonder; "how do I become a Lange girl?"
   In fact it is pretty easy:

• You must be eighteen (18) years old, legal residents of the United States at the time of entry and have Internet access. 
•  Entries will be accepted beginning December 1st, 2010 and ending on January 14, 2011 at 5:00 p.m. MT 
•  Entries must include a valid e-mail address for the entrant
•  Photos must meet the photo format guidelines in order to be uploaded

Here are some of the best of the past. I love ski boots....

Already missin' winter..

It's the end of winter and now we wait impatiently
for six months. Instead of counting every day left till opening of next season, go out and do some other shit to make time fly.

Thing toDo #

     White water Rafting

Something to do with your family.

  Seasons when the water is high or low enough to be
  to be able to raft but here is a description of a rafting
  company that works on the Poudre River that is near
  Fort Collins, Colorado.
Season - May 15 to early August.
Difficulty - Class III and IV, (Intermediate to Advanced). High water is from late May to late June. No experience is needed but participants need to be active and strong enough to paddle
hard through rapids. Wetsuit rentals are available
and highly recommended in May and June.
Minimum age - Varies from 18 in high water
to 14 at medium flows.
 http://www.awanderlustadventure.com/poudre-river-rafting.htm

Mountain Biking

Cheap if you have your own bike, but some ski resorts rent out decent downhill bikes for a price.

  This is something that you can do all day without it getting old. Fun and fast. 

or you could just end up like guy on his face.

Or if your in the right spot of Colorado, eat some DP Dough Cal-zones when your chillin.

Avalanches are no joke

 

This is a warning to all free skiers, know the conditions

ski the back country but take classes and have the equipment 

Its that sad time of year.. Colorado resort closing dates

Its that time of year to get out and try to fit in those last few days..

If your looking to use up those last day's in Colorado here are all of the dates of closer for resorts. But hey.. there is always Whistler!!

Ski on my friends

Opening and Closing Dates:

Arapahoe Basin	TBD (Estimated early June 2012)
Aspen Highlands	April 22, 2012
Aspen Mountain	April 15, 2012
Buttermilk	April 8, 2012
Copper Mountain	April 15, 2012
Crested Butte	April 8, 2012
Echo Mountain	April 15, 2012
Eldora	April 15, 2012
Howelsen Hill	March 18, 2012
Loveland	TBD
Monarch Mountain	April 15, 2012
Powderhorn	April 1, 2012
Purgatory at DMR	April 1, 2012
Silverton Mountain	April 15, 2012
Ski Cooper	April 8, 2012
Snowmass	April 1, 2012
SolVista Basin	April 8, 2012
Steamboat	April 15, 2012
Sunlight	April 8, 2012
Telluride	April 8, 2012
Winter Park	April 22, 2012
Wolf Creek	TBD

 Still lookin' for that special ski that will do just about everything huh? There are so many different types of skies out there all doing a different thing than the other, salesmen tellin' you what to buy because it's what they want you to buy. Well I found a tip from unofficialnetworks.com that I can mostly agree on, this only being mostly because they are missing my favorite type of ski; the 2011 ATOMIC BENT CHETLERS (only because I own a pair myself) so check the link above to see the review from none other than the atomic company itself. =)

Here is unofficialnetworks.com top 3 2011-2012 powder ski's. ENJOY

Top 3 Powder Skis for 2011 – 2012 | Unofficial Staff Picks

By UnofficialNetworks · September 11, 2011

Salomon Rocker 2

142-122-132 @184cm
170, 180, 184, 192
Jake Cohn of Unofficial Whistler is calling the Salomon Rocker 2 the “Honey Badger” of skis. Jake goes on to tell us that he thinks the Salomon Rocker 2 is “the best ski Salomon has made to date.” Jake gets free skis from Salomon, so that might have something to do with why he thinks these are the best skis ever made.

Atomic Atlas

150-125-132 @192cm
182, 192
When we asked Miles Clark of UnofficialSquaw.com about the Atomic Atlas he told us that “the Atomic Atlas ski has the most Rargh!” Miles went on to say, “if you are the kind of guy who likes to cheat, you will love these skis. It’s just that easy to ski powder on these bad boards.” Miles is an Atomic sponsored athlete so this could be why he thinks the Atomic Atlas skis have such a high ‘Rargh’ factor.

Blizzard Bodacious

142-118-132
186, 196cm
After a deep South American powder run on the Blizzard Bodacius, Eric Bryant of UnofficialSquaw.com said that he “never in his life had he had such a steamy nor arousing experience.” Eric is a broke college kid who Blizzard gave some free skis to which might had added to the “steam and arousal”.



Hope this helps on your next big buy!

Top Resorts of this year

Skiing big and going out to the beyond is a common feeling shared by us skiers and not understood by many. We all want to miss work or school to drive up and hit those big days when the snow couldn't be any better, leaving little money left in that bank account but a mind full of memories with the people who are there to shred with you.
   If you live in Colorado your feeling the pain of little snow while other places are getting pounded. What of theses resorts have been rated for the best snow this year?  "On The Snow" shows where the snow is at and the top rated resorts this year, this might help you decide what your next road trip is going to be this winter.

Recommended Resorts 

http://www.onthesnow.com/regions.html

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  Telluride Colorado

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  Crested Butte Colorado

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  Lake Louise Alberta

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  St. Anton Am Arlberg Austria