really good times this week. can’t believe it’s true kind of amazing snow at copper mountain. i got a 3 day pass and we used it well. first, of course, aaron made me hike up to the top of the tallest mountain in the park. he carried my board for me. he really is a sweet guy. but geez. i didn’t do it again no matter how amazing the 2 foot powder was coming down that bowl. pretty good day until aaron saw the T-Bar lift was open and said we HAD to go up it. he got up his first try. the total “dude” running the thing noticed i clearly had no idea what to do, babied me along with 12 people waiting behind me. every time i messed it up, which was many, he kept making me try again. it was a mix between this and this just about. but i’m pretty sure ours was faster. by the 8th time or so when i fell down trying to get on it, people actually started laughing out loud. it was horrible. i think i was crying inside my goggles from embarrassment when i finally got it and lurched up the mountain. only to realize i didn’t have the arm strength to make it the whole way up and fell off again. “dude” kindly came by a few minutes later to tell me not to sit in the middle of the lift path and to hop down to try again. no thanks. i spent the next hour on one tree run down to the base alternatively feeling awesome for making quick turns and feeling like crying for falling in 4 feet of powder and having to dig myself out. seriously, when was the last time someone actually laughed AT you? a total stranger. it was horrible. i think this sign just about says it for the runs we did at copper:
aside from ridiculous snowboarding good/bad times, we took a mini road trip down to leadville and buena vista (which locals apparently call “byoony” a shortened version of the mispronunciation of its spanish name). we are were considering leadville as a possible future homesite. affordable, in the rockies, decent sized community, film festival every year, and rich history:
but i think as you can see even under the sign here, that’s about what everything looks like in leadville. trailers, reaaaaaallly old tiny houses that look really crummy. and there were so many of them! there were maybe 10 really gorgeous houses with beautiful details in the woodwork and stuff, and all the tiny houses were clearly supposed to be miniatures with the same idea, but bleh, they were not well taken care of. it’s not like i was expecting morningside, atlanta quality, but come on…(funnier if you say it in gob bluth’s voice).
so we didn’t even stop in leadville. we just drove around and kept going to “byoony”. while far away from, well, everything, buena vista is pretty amazing. it’s in the “banana belt” which means it’s a bit warmer than surrounding areas. so that’s nice. and, it is at the base of the collegiate peaks: mount harvard, mount princeton, mount columbia, and mount yale which are breathtakingly beautiful. it also has hot springs! which we serious were kicking ourselves for not bringing swimsuits. but we will be back.
had some lunch at a local brewery, eddyline, thanks to a recommendation from yelp. and it is located in this strange new part of town where all the houses are 3 feet from each other and are brand new but built in the old style. i thought it was pretty creepy, but lack of food was making me crazy. so eddyline…scrumptious food, okay beer. also okay service. when i asked for a beer list, the waiter said “we have an ipa, a pale ale, a lager, an amber, a porter, a stout, and a honey wheat.” well, okay…i don’t know that much about beer, but i know more than most people. i’d even like to know what hops are in what or malts or…something! we settled for our waiter’s two favorites: the porter and the ipa. they were okay. nothing terrible, but if we go back, we’d buy more. especially since if you mention yelp, you get the pints for $2.50.
but the pizza with lavender on it was out of this world. chicken, mozz, red onions, feta, and lavender…i want more right now. but after lunch, we wandered over to the arkansas river where albus immediately dived in. and then got washed down the white water rapids. it was funny. for about 20 seconds, and then it seemed like the poor pup could only think to swim straight back towards us, which just resulted in him flowing farther down stream. aaron had to run down the trail and call him to the bank. silly doodle.
and we got some sweet pics in around this living room set made out of tile next to the river. (title photo!) and you can see some of the collegiate peaks behind aaron. not sure which ones they are though.
then we definitely went to the local coffee roaster in town…only to be disappointed again. people don’t really care about coffee here it seems. everything is very sub par for us coffee snobs.
visited a goat cheese farm on the way back. they no joke had about 30 different flavors of goat cheese. we bought 3 and 2 pucks of goat’s milk soap which turned out to be terrible. not the cheese, the cheese is amazing and i want to eat it with a spoon. the soap was brown with ugly “confetti” pieces and some chunks of cinnamon which really scratch my skin. not a fan.
that’s about it for week 3. nothing short of amazing and really looking forward to week 4! easter, possible soaper friends, and…more snow!!!
video 3 of awesomeness:
exploring the land
really good times this week. can’t believe it’s true kind of amazing snow at copper mountain. i got a 3 day pass and we used it well. first, of course, aaron made me hike up to the top of the tallest mountain in the park. he carried my board for me. he really is a sweet guy. but geez. i didn’t do it again no matter how amazing the 2 foot powder was coming down that bowl. pretty good day until aaron saw the T-Bar lift was open and said we HAD to go up it. he got up his first try. the total “dude” running the thing noticed i clearly had no idea what to do, babied me along with 12 people waiting behind me. every time i messed it up, which was many, he kept making me try again. it was a mix between this and this just about. but i’m pretty sure ours was faster. by the 8th time or so when i fell down trying to get on it, people actually started laughing out loud. it was horrible. i think i was crying inside my goggles from embarrassment when i finally got it and lurched up the mountain. only to realize i didn’t have the arm strength to make it the whole way up and fell off again. “dude” kindly came by a few minutes later to tell me not to sit in the middle of the lift path and to hop down to try again. no thanks. i spent the next hour on one tree run down to the base alternatively feeling awesome for making quick turns and feeling like crying for falling in 4 feet of powder and having to dig myself out. seriously, when was the last time someone actually laughed AT you? a total stranger. it was horrible. i think this sign just about says it for the runs we did at copper:
but i think as you can see even under the sign here, that’s about what everything looks like in leadville. trailers, reaaaaaallly old tiny houses that look really crummy. and there were so many of them! there were maybe 10 really gorgeous houses with beautiful details in the woodwork and stuff, and all the tiny houses were clearly supposed to be miniatures with the same idea, but bleh, they were not well taken care of. it’s not like i was expecting morningside, atlanta quality, but come on…(funnier if you say it in gob bluth’s voice).
so we didn’t even stop in leadville. we just drove around and kept going to “byoony”. while far away from, well, everything, buena vista is pretty amazing. it’s in the “banana belt” which means it’s a bit warmer than surrounding areas. so that’s nice. and, it is at the base of the collegiate peaks: mount harvard, mount princeton, mount columbia, and mount yale which are breathtakingly beautiful. it also has hot springs! which we serious were kicking ourselves for not bringing swimsuits. but we will be back.
had some lunch at a local brewery, eddyline, thanks to a recommendation from yelp. and it is located in this strange new part of town where all the houses are 3 feet from each other and are brand new but built in the old style. i thought it was pretty creepy, but lack of food was making me crazy. so eddyline…scrumptious food, okay beer. also okay service. when i asked for a beer list, the waiter said “we have an ipa, a pale ale, a lager, an amber, a porter, a stout, and a honey wheat.” well, okay…i don’t know that much about beer, but i know more than most people. i’d even like to know what hops are in what or malts or…something! we settled for our waiter’s two favorites: the porter and the ipa. they were okay. nothing terrible, but if we go back, we’d buy more. especially since if you mention yelp, you get the pints for $2.50.
but the pizza with lavender on it was out of this world. chicken, mozz, red onions, feta, and lavender…i want more right now. but after lunch, we wandered over to the arkansas river where albus immediately dived in. and then got washed down the white water rapids. it was funny. for about 20 seconds, and then it seemed like the poor pup could only think to swim straight back towards us, which just resulted in him flowing farther down stream. aaron had to run down the trail and call him to the bank. silly doodle.
and we got some sweet pics in around this living room set made out of tile next to the river. (title photo!) and you can see some of the collegiate peaks behind aaron. not sure which ones they are though.
visited a goat cheese farm on the way back. they no joke had about 30 different flavors of goat cheese. we bought 3 and 2 pucks of goat’s milk soap which turned out to be terrible. not the cheese, the cheese is amazing and i want to eat it with a spoon. the soap was brown with ugly “confetti” pieces and some chunks of cinnamon which really scratch my skin. not a fan.
that’s about it for week 3. nothing short of amazing and really looking forward to week 4! easter, possible soaper friends, and…more snow!!!
video 3 of awesomeness: