Fun Climbs Around The World

View toward Lake Dillon; Tenmile Range on right; Mosquito Range left of center

Peak 1 sits at the far right edge of the Tenmile Range, with Breckenridge  ski area occupying Peaks 6 through 10.  A 14er, Quandary, forms the far left edge of the Tenmile Range, left of Breckenridge.

On Saturday, I taught my first ski lesson of the season at Keystone. In the morning, before lessons start, a group of  instructors  and I tore up the mountain … Uh, checked out the snow conditions of the different runs so that we’d know where to best take our clients ….

We skied one run on the newly-opened Mozart, a south-facing run that leads from the top of Dercum Mountain (the main area) down to the lifts that allow one to reach North Peak and the Outback.  my son would love this run: he raced for seven years with Team Summit and likes a fast, icy run. For the non-racers, people who don’t thrive on going as fast as possible on as firm a terrain as they can get, I’d wait for more snow to fall. and maybe colder temperatures.

However, conditions on the north-facing slopes were quite good, with several runs open, including Spring Dipper, Schoolmarm, and Flying Dutchman. with fresh snow expected starting Wednesday, the trails shouls be in good shape after the next few days of snow.
We’d worked on repairing the roof and stucco of my Earthship all last fall, and among that repair I had made tin caps for the parapet walls, which you can see slightly below center.  These should keep the parapet walls from leaking in the future, no matter how much snow ;piles up on the flat tops.