Skiing Steamboat 2026
3 March 2026 06:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
expedition_retirementOur first ski destination was the Steamboat ski resort, which we consider our "home mountain." This visit marked our 20th time skiing the resort, and it felt like coming home. Because of the ongoing drought in the Rocky Mountains, this was the thinnest we've ever seen the snow here. However, the grooming crew was doing a heroic job of keeping the mountain skiable, and we still had a good time and got in some excellent skiing over the six days we were here.
On our first day, we randomly met a very nice gentleman in a lift line who was skiing alone, and ended up skiing with him for the next several days. He was less familiar with the mountain, so we show him around and helped him find places that we thought he might enjoy skiing. We even had some fun playing with sport video cameras, capturing simultaneous videos that I was later able to combine into split screen format.
I also took one day at Steamboat to ski on some demo skis. It was my first step towards replacing my 20+ year old skis. I liked two of the pairs I skied on that day, but *hated* the third. Ultimately, the day left me still undecided about what skis I might buy to replace my old ones.
Our final two days at Steamboat, we skied alone, but we visited some of our favorite parts of the mountain, and finished our week at Steamboat feeling like we got as much good skiing as was possible for the conditions.
On our first day, we randomly met a very nice gentleman in a lift line who was skiing alone, and ended up skiing with him for the next several days. He was less familiar with the mountain, so we show him around and helped him find places that we thought he might enjoy skiing. We even had some fun playing with sport video cameras, capturing simultaneous videos that I was later able to combine into split screen format.
I also took one day at Steamboat to ski on some demo skis. It was my first step towards replacing my 20+ year old skis. I liked two of the pairs I skied on that day, but *hated* the third. Ultimately, the day left me still undecided about what skis I might buy to replace my old ones.
Our final two days at Steamboat, we skied alone, but we visited some of our favorite parts of the mountain, and finished our week at Steamboat feeling like we got as much good skiing as was possible for the conditions.