USA 09/10 – Beaver Creek Day 4 – More exploring

Our fourth day at Beaver Creek started at a similar time to yesterday – 8:15am – however it did take us a bit longer to get ready and hit the slopes this morning. Morning TV took our fancy and so everything moved just that little bit slower. The weather did not look as nice out today, but it was still calm and relatively clear – just far less blue sky to be seen in any direction. We did make it outside eventually, but after 10am, and took our usual route along the skiway to the village, then up the Centennial Express. On previous days we had mostly explored to the left of this lift, but today, we went as far as was possible to the... [Read More]

USA 09/10 – Beaver Creek Day 3 – More sunshine!

Our second day of skiing here at Beaver Creek started at the same time as yesterday, although we were ready a little earlier this morning. We had a quick breakfast, and were out on the slopes by 9:40am. We skied a similar track to yesterday, taking the main lift (the Centennial) up the hill. Luckily there was no queue at all this morning – even less than yesterday morning’s Sunday crowd. We tackled a few more runs today than yesterday, and explored a little more terrain in the once again perfect weather. Early on in the day we check out the Rose Bowl area, somewhere we had avoided previously as it seemed fairly remote. This chair turned out to be an older triple chair (much... [Read More]

USA 09/10 – Beaver Creek Day 2 – Time to hit the slopes

Day 2 (our first full day) at Beaver Creek started at a very reasonable time – 8:15am we woke up (although Ed had been up for some time before this) in order to make a 9:30am scheduled departure for the slopes (ie, out the door on level two). We did pretty well to make this time, and were only 10 minutes late hitting the snow. We first skied down to the village (much easier than walking mind you) and bought lift tickets for the remaining days. Crowds were not to be seen anywhere, and this was probably a result of how late in the holiday period it now was here in the US. We headed up the hill and tried to explore as much as... [Read More]

USA 09/10 – Las Vegas to Beaver Creek

Unfortunately, today started early again – we met Ed ready to head for the airport at 6am. A quick Starbucks breakfast, and we were on the way with a humorous taxi driver. The streets were abnormally busy for 6am, but as the driver suggested it was probably just people heading home after New Year’s celebrations (now being 2nd January…). We arrived at the airport, unloaded everything and checked in. The baggage weight game was a mixed result (remember, the limit is 50lbs), with Ed coming in as the heaviest (51lbs), Pip in second place (47lbs) while I took third (45lbs). This was a total mix-up from the first flight-leg where Ed was the lightest and Pip the heaviest. Nonetheless, no excess baggage was required and... [Read More]