Ride the Boat!

So my friend Josh out in Seattle gave me a scale to use while grading my snowdays. 1-6 snowflakes to be given to the level of fun that I am having. 6 being the greatest with no 1/2 snowflakes to be awarded. Seems simple enough right? But just remember that once you give a 6 where do you go? 6 is the best! 6 is Nirvana. Steamboat Mountain on Monday 1-4-08 got a 7! How did it get a 7? Folks let me tell you, FLUFF!!!!!!! Go pile up a mound of dryer lint and dive into it and watch. I would say go pile up some baby powder or flour, but that stuff will settle on you. Steamboat powder doesn't settle. Even the runs where we were not first or second, the snow was so damn soft.

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Compton and Leigh (greatest vail local you will ever meet)


So my best buddy in the entire world (that sounds so second grade, but is so true) and his wife Leigh drove up to the boat on saturday morning to join us. Free lodging for them but riding with 2 people that haven't strapped in for 2 years, what a trade off! We had a blast! Saturday we spent our time trying to learn the mountain, sunday trying to figure out where the steeps were, and monday trying to experience them in some of steamboats finest 12" of fresh!

We discovered a section that thanks to Brett (the Human compass for the US army) we would not have tried. Closet and Shadows proved to be a great section of trees that was well protected from the winds and for the most part crowds. Here is compton about half way down.



The day continued to get better and better, with more puff than Snoop Dogg could handle! You couldn't hear anything. It was as close to being Deft as i will ever get. I expected to hear something, but there was nothing. It was a KAVU day, a 7 snowflake day, double thumbs up, a 3 cheers for Steamboat, a how lucky am I to be alive day!

If you ski or ride get to COLORADO this year. You aren't going to see anything else like it. You aren't going to regret it! GO GO GO. Get to travelocity, get to orbitz, just get out of where you are right now and go. There isn't anything like it out there....or is there?