Colorado Explored

Now open for the 2019/20 SEASON!!!! What can I say about Arapahoe Basin? Well, I can say a ton. While some of us vacationed in Colorado before and snowboarded Winter Park or Copper Mountain we really learned how to snowboard after having moved here and we did it @ A-Basin. Over 50 days in the 2018/19 season were spent cruising the runs and learning the sport. I maintain if you can learn to ski or snowboard @ Arapahoe Basin you can easily ski or snowboard any other mountain in Colorado with ease. The terrain @ Arapahoe Basin is wide and steep, the blues are comparable to blacks at some of the other resorts, and let me clarify, Arapahoe Basin is no resort. There are no Hotels or places to stay, The Basin is a locals mountain and you can feel that vibe as soon as you get there. Look at it on a map and you can see right off the bat the size, its a lot smaller than most resorts and that is once again...because its not a resort. Your not going to see the huge crowds of out of towne

Never before have I seen so many bodies crammed into such a small space competing for lines in my life. Opening day of the 2019 season....we were there.... This year started off with a BANG! A literal jab from one Mountain to another. With Keystone expected to open on Saturday 10/12, Arapahoe Basin not to be outdone, blasted out an E-mail around 2pm on Friday 10/11/  It was time. Arapahoe Basin was officially open for the season offering discounted lift tickets and cheap beer, get yo A$$ to the mountain specials. While we didn't make it on Friday we did make it Saturday morning for the official "first full day" of the season. I mean lets be real, hardly anyone was able to make it out there to hit the slopes with such little notification on Friday, we all know why The Basin did this, and I for one loved it .It wasn't necessarily to actually have people out, this was more about bragging rights and not wanting to be outdone by their now rival Keystone after having split

Grays Peak (14,270 ft.) and  Torreys Peak (14,267 ft.), are two of the more popular 14ers in Colorado,the 9th and 11th highest mountains in the state, respectively. These two peaks are also the only two 14ers situated on the Continental Divide with Grays considered the highest  point on the divide.  The two peaks are connected by a saddle that's about a quarter  shy of a mile making this hike a great opportunity to bag them both in the same day (or night).  Torreys, being a Class 2 mountain, is considered the more difficult of the two although I think personally I have to disagree with this statement. I decided to do this hike about 12 hours before leaving the house, seriously. Dee and I were talking about some of the things on the horizon for Colorado Explored when he mentioned he was planning to summit Grays and Torreys the next morning solo . That was on Friday @ 4:27pm, I was out the door and on my way to meet up with him by 4:15am Saturday morning. I arrived over to Dee&