Breckenridge

Started a very frontcountry weekend in Breckenridge with a walk through the annual snow sculpture competition. The international field was spending their last night finalizing their art work for judging.

I hadn’t ridden a chair lift all last winter, but that’s mostly what I spent Saturday doing. That, and enjoying spending some time in the warm winter sunlight with friends and relatives.

A couple of Saturday’s large meals needed to be worked off, so Erick, Jeremy and I departed at 7:15 am to skin up from the base of Peak 9 to the top of the Mercury Chair lift before the lifts opened.

Tired legs appreciated the forgiving freshly groomed runs as we headed down just as the first chairs of people began their ascent. A large breakfast followed with most of the rest of the crew. Then we were back out the door for more runs with the crowds followed by a delay-tactic of dinner out to let the traffic thin before making our own return back home.

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