Day 2 of Monarch

Well after a crazy day one at the mountain we were kinda skeptical about day 2 because the weather forecast was about the same as it was the day before. However this time when we walked out the door it wasn't snowing. We got all the stuff packed up and loaded in the car and headed to breakfast at the Patio Pancake House. Very good and cheap breakfast. Then off we zoomed toward Monarch. Again saw all of the state of Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas on the way to the mountain.

On the Colorado ski website it noted that Monarch had only gotten 2 inches of snow but they actually had gotten anywhere between 8-18 inches depending on the wind blown areas. Renae and my's first run was to take advantage of the fresh snow on the Black Diamonds. Let me tell you making first tracks in 18 inches of new snow was awesome and hard work.

Above is Renae coming down one of the diamonds. Here they had about 6-8 inches of fresh powder on top of some nice packed powder. We played around in the diamonds for about an hour. On the last run down I got stuck, literally, in about 3 feet of fresh snow and wasn't sure how to dig out. But after about 20 min, which seemed like eternity, I finally got myself and my board unlodged. This wore me out and we took a break and had some nachos.

Me on a black diamond run.

Renae on a diamond run.

After our break we headed up to come down the run we had taken the day before that had gotten so disorienting. It was actually a pretty easy blue that we made it down in like 3 min. The day before it had taken about 25 min. We headed back up to go down the left side of the divide and did a pretty nice blue that made you ready for anything going from packed powder to fresh powder. The out-of-staters where everywhere. Lined all across the runs like bowling pins waiting to be knocked over. Our last run of the day was down Little Mo' and there were way to many people who didn't understand skiing on the run. Overall was an awesome day.