Apologies to the non-skiers on the list. Yeah, $100+ is a bit painful. OTH, there are bargains available (and we know how much sailboat owners like bargains. There, it's sailing related). I'm skiing 4 days at Steamboat, 4 days at Winter Park, several days at Copper Mountain and Crested Butte this year on a $569 pass. I also get access to Eldora, CO if I choose to go. Also included are discounted single day tickets for friends. Very good deal if you are skiing 5+ days.
Vail offers various passes for their resorts. Really good deals also if you plan well and buy early. I will be skiing in Colorado much of January, early February and again in March if any listers are out there. Have truck, will ski! :) Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Rick Rohwer via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Enivous about equador, and you living in BC and skiing anywhere but BC. > > On another note, I think I have given up on skiing in Whistler so it’s all > yours! I think they have finally hit my personal affordability index with > $119 for a tow ticket. Explains why you are skiing in Colorado! > > Cheers > Rick > Paikea 37+ > Poulsbo, WA > > On Dec 14, 2015, at 5:31 PM, Brad Crawford via CnC-List < > cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > > Bill, > > Sounds cool, quite an adventure. High altitude big mountain skiing for > sure? Thanks for sharing that story. Do you by chance have a link to > pictures you could share? Maybe share them off list? > > bcrawf7...@comcast.net > > Fellow Skier > Brad Crawford > C&C 36 > Seattle, WA > > *From:* CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com > <cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com>] *On Behalf Of *Bill Hoyne via CnC-List > *Sent:* Monday, December 14, 2015 9:21 AM > *To:* Gaynor Hoyne; cnc-list@cnc-list.com > *Cc:* Bill Hoyne > *Subject:* Stus-List : off topic Skiing > > The winter season is upon us up here in the north. Trying to get a > headstart on the ski season a friend and I decided to do a ski > mountaineering trip to Ecuador. For all you skiers out there, here is a bit > of a trip description > > Our goal was to get as high as we could and ski some volcanoes. Getting > high on volcanoes usually means a severe headache and serious shortness of > breath :-) sorry no hallucinations! After a week of acclimatization hikes > to 17,000’ we did our first ski ascent. We drove to the refugio and hiked > our skiis to the base of the glacier at 17,000’ and promptly got headaches > and a bad sleep so we went to town to recover. The next day we went back > and with a 3AM start we hiked up to our skiis and boot packed our shit to > the summit at 19,000’. We skied off the summit avoiding some seracs and > crevasses. We had to jump a few crevasses - that was fun!!. The snow was > rather thin, 1” of crusty snow over isothermal ice, made for some nice corn > skiing. The nearby volcano Cotopaxi was erupting and spewing a fine ash all > over the snow. It was interesting skiing black snow (not good for the bases > however). > A couple of spa days later we headed up Volcan Antisana - another > 18,700’. We had similar snow conditions but much more severe route finding > issues. We negotiated some very big seracs and crevasses. Getting up and > down required and lot of vertical snow and ice climbing. We spent a few > hours route finding on the way dow trying to avoid the worst of the seracs > and finding the best way to ski. We jumped and toured around some big ass > crevasses, but made it back to safety by early afternoon, it was only a 12 > hour day. > Ecuador is a beautiful country. Defiantly worth exploring, however climate > change has done a number on the snow conditions on the volcanoes, very warm > dry weather has melted the glaciers and opened the crevasses. Worth > climbing maybe not hauling skiis up to ski. > I am back home now and the cross country skiing is awesome. We went up to > Bow Summit in the Rockies and skied boot deep powder. It’s amazing how much > oxygen there is at this elevation!! Life is good! > Now, should I do a little sailing in January :-) > > Happy Holidays to all you C&C listers!! > > Bill > > > *Bill Hoyne* > Mithrandir > ’74 C&C35 MkII > in Victoria,BC > > _______________________________________________ > > Email address: > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the > bottom of page at: > http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Email address: > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the > bottom of page at: > http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com > > >
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