Telluride Day 15 - Smoking the front side

I cooked pancakes for breakfast again. It was snowing lightly in the village as we ate breakfast so there was some hope of powder on the mountain.
Upon reaching the top it became apparent that there'd only been about 3 or 4 cms of new snow. Not enough to get excited about but it made the world of difference to the surface texture.

Exited Chair 7 at the top of Coonskin and took a run down Village Bypass, an easy groomed green. The snow was soft, the skis bit in effortlessly, it felt great. Didn't matter that the light was flat and freezing rain was clagging up the goggles making it near impossible to see the trail ahead. Skiing by feel, the only way to go.

It snowed off and on, light and hard, most of the day, but no major accumulation. However the softer snow made a world of difference to the aches and pains - the anti inflam I took last night also helped. The skiing felt awesome today. I even hit a couple of bump runs and finished the day with laps on the front side runs, Coonskin and Milk Run. Both very steep black runs beneath the village gondola.

Riding Chair 7

Jim wasn't having a great day, freezing rain messing with his equipment so he retired early. And Mason shot off to sort out his boots....having different sized feet creates problems. I skied on until 3.45pm. There's a bit of a trend emerging here. :-)

Jamie trying to dry out in front of Gorrono's fire

Chairs on terrace at Gorrono

Jim and I hit the hot tub after skiing. The Double Diamond hot tub is out the front of the condo in a little area separated from the ski slope by clear perspex. So felt a bit like being in a fish bowl as we soaked our aching joints while folks exercised their dogs and kicked footballs a stones throw from us.

Claire in a decidely more wintery looking downtown Telluride

Tomboy Tavern (named after one of Tellurides gold mines we've subsequently learned) was the venue for dinner. We enjoyed it so much the other night we decided to spend our last night in town there, and it didn't disappoint. The food was spectacular and the night time gondola ride to and from the restaurant is stunning.

We ski Telluride tomorrow and then head off to Aspen in the afternoon. Chateau Blanc is to be our home in Aspen. Close to the gondola and downtown, should be good.