Are you ready to ski Colorado?

Not only is September Emergency Preparedness month, it is also ski preparedness month! 

It is time to buy season passes to Breckenridge, Keystone, Copper Mountain and Arapahoe Basin.  It is also a time when we anxiously await the equipment reviews in Ski magazine, the ski swap announcements, the Labor Day tent sales and Sports Authority's  Sniagrab sale.  We watch the weather forecast closely, hoping that it will get cold enough to snow, and every morning we check the peaks for traces of white stuff. 

I give my legs an extra workout in my pilates classes in hopes that when the first day of skiing comes I can get more than two hours in and still be able to walk the next day. 

Of course, we are still six to eight weeks away from announced opening days.  Loveland and Keystone always have a race to see who can open first, somewhere around October 20th.  Copper's opening day this year is November 2.  Some ski areas don't open until after Thanksgiving, but it depends mostly on the snow gods and the snow making equipment. 

I got an email from the Steamboat Powder Cats today.  I skied with them a couple of seasons ago, and it was lots of fun.  They take you in a snowcat up on a mountain with untracked, ungroomed snow.  An awesome experience!  Check out this video made by one of their guides.  Can you imagine skiing or riding through the trees video taping someone else skiing?  We have Cat skiing at Copper Mountain, Keystone and Chicago Ridge near Cooper ski area, but there is nothing quite like the Steamboat Powder Cats and their champagne powder.  The day I went, we had not had fresh snow for a while, (unusual up there), but they still found us untracked snow.  It was a great day! 
I am looking forward to many of them this season.

Woo Hoo!  Awesome dude!