The season ended on April 13 after a week with yet more brilliant powder skiing. On last day I cycled up Brush Creek Road in late pm and the photos above show the snow base still there with the ski slopes behind.
Official stastistics show 40 days of fresh snow falls of over 4 inches in the season - the celebrated ` powder day ` criteria.
We both finished work on Saturday night . Big relief for us that we got through season without incident either on the slopes ( albeit with a couple of close calls ) or at work . Particularly the latter as far as I was concerned. A lot of portential for ` incidents `.
Since then we've been clearing 270 Meadow Ranch and have been up to our necks in cardboard boxes -- builders move in tomorrow for 3 months. 6 feet of frozen snow at side and back of house where the work begins will cause a problem though. A lot of work behind us in terms of getting plans for remodel drawn and through planning and the condominium assn. We've taken a let of a studio flat just across the road from us for June and July . We hope to be back in Snowmass by June 1 . Work should be finished by Aug 1 when hopefully we can move back into 270.
We were due to get 4 or 5 hours towards Kansas tonight , but got 8 miles to El Jebel and were turned back - Hwy 82 closed in both directions due to a bad bush fire - remarkable given the amount of precipitation ( but of snow ! ) over last 5 months. Large scale evacuations , etc , but no fatalities we hear. Eventually, after returning to Meadow Ranch for a couple of hours, we set off for 2nd time to Glenwood Springs ( normally 1 hour and it took us 3 ) at 9pm only to find Interstate 70 east bound closed. Here we are in motel outside Glenwood with still 25 hours driving ahead of us.
Next entry hopefully from Asheville, NC.
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