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Sliding on the Cheap! Rocky Mountain Edition! |
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January 9, 2010
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Hello Colorado Sliders!
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Sometimes It Pays To Be A Local!
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Warning! Sliding on an empty stomach can be dangerous to your health!
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January Learn To Ski Month!
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Colorado Ski and Snowboard Season Is In Full Swing!
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Hello Sliders!
When we hit January, we're just getting into the ski season, and in Colorado, that means giving everyone a chance to learn cheap.
*Editor's Pick! Echo Mountain!
The Echo Mountain Ski & Ride School offers group lessons for all ages and ability levels, including a twilight class at 5:15pm every Monday and Wednesday through Saturday. New multi-week programs are also available for kids aged 4-14 with an emphasis on safety, fun and learning. Get all the specifics: http://www.echomt.com
*Arapahoe Basin
On January 10th and 24th Arapahoe Basin is offering $65 lesson, lift and rentals for children or adults. Cheapest deal ever! Go to http://www.arapahoebasin.com and click on the hot deals button. They also offer a "learn to ski guaranteed" package for $339 that includes 3 half day lessons and a season pass. If you are not skiing their blue slopes by they third lesson they will give you more till you do.
*Loveland
Loveland has one the cheapest learn to ski deals out there. You pre-purchase three half day Adult lessons or 3 full day children’s lesson complete with lift tickets, ski rentals and lunch for the kids and they give you a season pass. It’s only $255 for adults and $288 for kids. Note: you have to finish the lessons before they will give you the pass.
http://www.skiloveland.com
*Ski Cooper
Ski Cooper near Leadville has a pay as you go program. For skiers 12 and older who have never skied their lessons, lift tickets, and rentals are $50 for the first lesson and $75 for the next two. After you complete the third lesson you get your pass! Riders 8-12 are $80 per lesson.
http://www.skicooper.com
*Wolf Creek
Wolf Creek offers a "learn to ski" lesson and lift ticket w/o rentals for $52. Learn to snowboard is $10 more. Just make sure you bring your own gear.
http://www.wolfcreekski.com
[Photo: Learning to ski at Echo Mountain, Colorado!]
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Colorado Ski Country USA (CSCUSA) and its 22 member resorts are celebrating January as Learn to Ski and Ride month. To mark the month, resorts around the state are offering lessons taught by industry professionals at reduced prices and are hosting special programs for skiers and riders wanting to improve their skills, whether beginner or advanced. Additionally, CSCUSA is giving away hundreds of dollars worth of prizes in honor of January Learn to Ski and Ride Month.
Ski areas are announcing January learn-to-ski deals that cater to both children and adults. Echo Mountain, for instance, is offering a discount on its Mountaineers lessons and park instruction in its Progression Sessions throughout January, as well as a special lesson offer just for CSCUSA 5th and 6th grade passholders. Monarch Mountain is also offering a major discount on two packages that include lift tickets, lessons, and rentals.
CSCUSA is celebrating Learn to Ski and Ride Month by sending a pair of lucky learners off with the complete learn-to-ski-and-ride package, including Columbia outerwear for two, beginner lessons, lift tickets, and equipment rentals. Anyone, from a first-time downhiller to a seasoned ski veteran, is welcomed to enter the Learn to Ski and Ride Sweepstakes at www.ColoradoSki.com. Skiers and riders also have the chance to win a free Chipotle burrito every day in January by submitting a photo to CSCUSA of themselves or their friends and family learning to ski or snowboard at a CSCUSA member resort.
For a complete listing of January-Learn-to-Ski-and-Ride-Month special events and deals at CSCUSA member resorts, please visit http://www.ColoradoSki.com.
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You can only ski well if you're running on some high octane fuel. In Colorado everyone has there favorite pre-ski breakfast spots. The Denver Post recently ran an article on a few of their favorites in ski towns all over the state. You can view it at http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_14112319 . However, not to disparage the good folks at the Post, but they left off some real Front Range breakfast gems.
If you're driving I-70 from Denver for a hard day on the slopes and you didn't eat an extra bowl of Captain Crunch it's worth the 20 minutes to stop in Idaho Springs to fuel up. Just remember to keep going past the McDonalds right off the Interstate. STOP I MEAN THIS! I don't care if a McWhatever is only a buck make yourself an egg sandwich in two minutes before you leave the house for $0.25. Ok 5 minutes but don't buy bad food, ever! It only encourages them to make more (and yes my kids like it too).
If PB&J is the extent of your cooking skills, I'll help. Step 1 - Turn your range to Med to preheat, not high it will make the egg whites too crispy. Step 2- Grab a non stick skillet (any pan not shinny will do) coat it with some type of grease or oil because non stick is not. Step 3 - Crack an egg and cook it in the pan, two or three if you're hungry. You can do this, really my 7 year old does. Step 4 - Take 2 slices of bread put them in the toaster and remember the better the bread the better the sandwich. Step 5 - Flip eggs. If you want them a little soft don’t flip them until the whites are almost fully hard. This will help keep the yolks from breaking, otherwise break the yolks and flip when they look 2/3 cooked. Step 6 - After you flip and if you have any soul at all, cover them with some type of hot sauce, Cholula is my personal choice or 505 green chili, let them finish cooking for a minute. Step 7 - When the toast slices pop out butter them and put a slice
of whatever cheese you like on one, place egg(s) on top of cheese to melt, add turkey or ham if you have it, cover with the second slice of bread and VOILA you’ve made a breakfast sandwich! Wrap in a paper towel, eat it on the run and strike a blow for food liberty!
However, if you have the twenty minutes and more than a buck there are several great places to eat in Idaho Springs. Two fan favorites are the "Two Brothers Delicatessen" http://www.twobrothersdeli.com and the Wildfire Cafe. They are polar opposites but both offer great fare for between $5 and $10. The Wildfire has been around for years and has a very loyal fan base, including bikers. It specializes in Western Comfort food. If you hate grease stay away otherwise pork fat is power! The Two Brothers is newer but has amazing wraps and food specials (and a yoga studio in back, really). It's a tribute to Colorado that they co-exist quite well in the same small town.
15 miles up the road in the small (150 people) town of Silverthorne is the Sopp & Truscott Bakery, just look for the big sign that says "BREAD" on the side of a 150-year old house. You can see it from the interstate. It's on the town's main (and pretty much only) street. The owner's family goes back to the 1800s in this former mining town and I don't know where he learned to bake bread but he does it very well. A cup of coffee and some scones will keep you in top shape well past lunch. Make sure you buy a loaf of their bread to take home. Note: He's been trying to sell the place for a few years. Not to be mean but I hope he never does or if he does I hope the next owner will take the time to learn his secrets.
A little further up the road past the tunnel in Dillon is my kid's favorite breakfast spot, The Sunshine Cafe. Turn left off the interstate a few blocks and again it's near the golden arches on the right side beside the Dairy Queen. It wins best breakfast restaurant in Dillon pretty much every year: great pancakes, waffle, and egg dishes at prices 30-50% less than the resorts. The biscuits and gravy are a little disappointing for a former southern boy.
On your way out (or as an option) pop into the Blue Moon Bakery across the parking lot in the strip mall. This place rocks, especially for a bakery at 9,000 feet above Sea Level! Breads and pastries are their specialty and they do them very well. They make these muffins that are deadly. Pick up snacks for the slopes or they have wonderful breakfast sandwiches. Anything you put on their bread would be good. Good coffee too.
[Photo: Riding the Magic Carpet at Echo Mountain!]
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