Saturday, March 03, 2007

Travel to Winter Park

On Sunday we drove from Colorado Springs to Winter Park. Along the way, we stopped at The Garden of the Gods. Here are a few pictures of our walk through the park.



On our way out of the park, we saw a group of about 10 cyclists out on a ride. They were really attacking the hills for February, I surely would have been dropped had I been riding with them. As it was, they dropped our car on one of the descents and we never saw them again.


As you can see from the pictures, there wasn't much snow on the ground around Colorado Springs. This held true as we passed Denver and turned into the mountains. I was starting to get concerned that there wouldn't be much snow in Winter Park (that's typically the way my ski vacations go)... I was wrong.

As we started climbing up the Berthoud Pass, snow started falling, and it didn't stop until late in the day on Monday. The result was that we had about 5-6" of fresh snow on the ground by Monday morning. Driving up and down the pass wasn't too bad, the road was snowy, but not too slippery. Also, since it was a Sunday evening, most of the traffic was going the other way, back toward Denver.

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