Dec 29-Jan 4: NYE - Mile High Club X-Treem

Ben Laurent:
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Hoofers to the East--

This trip announcement comes with some wintery momentum that is in full swing here in Colorado, as 4 of us Mile-High Hoofers just completed an epic October snowshoe trek through 3+ feet of powdery snow in the Indian Peaks Wilderness. Yes, Snowshoeing in October, waist deep. With Colorado winter conditions coming the earliest in years (two ski slopes have already opened the earliest in history) and my first Downhill Ski-Snowshoe weekend happening in like 3 days, I suppose its time to invite you sub-1000 feet mortals to join in the wintery fun, and by wintery fun I mean:

XC-Skiing

DH-Skiing

Telemark-Skiing

4-season sporking

Pond Hockey/Broomball on an Alpine Lake

glissading

Snowshoeing

Snowcave Building

Fruit Loop Pancakes

Avalanche Aversion

Bowie Glacier Rescue

Hoofer Chili Over an Open Fire

Whiskey/Non-Whiskey Cider

Jiffy Pop

A cabin in Grand Lake

Alpine Lake Jumping

Frostbite Cribbage

Optional La Quinta Waffles

Etc.

While whispers of such an event have been circulating amongst many of the some, this is official as it can get because its going to be done on the fly, Hoofer Hardcore Style, with a New Year's Eve celebration smack dab in the middle of it that will have you singing Auld Lang Syne well into two-thousand-and-ought eleven.

So here's what is going to happen:

Probably on December 29th, I'll drive back from Madison to Colorado with an Alli, a Bowie, and a Becca.

Probably on December 30th-31st-1st-2nd-3rd there will be some hardcore winter adventure containing most if not all of the above list.

Probably on December 31st evening there will be some epic NYE celebration on a ski slope, or Rocky Mountain National Park, or doing the Grand Lake bar crawl with the locals, or rockin' out to some tunes on a hand-crank radio in a snowcave, or cramming 10 people in a one bedroom cabin or something really cool that will sock your rocks off.

Probably, on the 4th, you will go back to marginally close to sea level.

The trip will be as cheap as we can make it and will optimize tents and Lipton rice sides while minimizing showers and maximizing unlimited consumption of free day/week-old Einstein Bagels. Those of us with ski passes can help those who need ski passes via guest passes (we're locked in for Copper/WP/Steamboat), and the club has snowshoes and tele-skis, and other gear that you may want, and if you are lucky you can sleep in my backyard too.

The only thing you may be saying that would prevent you from coming is: "but colorado does not have a culvers". But, I assure you it does, and its spreading like Eurasian Milfoil.

So, if you are interested, e-mail me and we can get the planning started.