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Yesterday was my first day skiing. It was amazing. Nothing short of amazing. 12 hours of driving? Yes. $33 dollar tickets? Heck yes. Face shots? You bet ya.

At 4am we left Summit County, it began to snow.

 4:30am, it started snowing really really hard. White-out conditions for the next 3 hours, what hell are we thinking?

 5 hours after leaving Summit County we arrive at Wolf Creek, aka powder land. Stoke level through the roof.

We arrived at Wolf Creek and it was magnificent. Snow everywhere, lifts just starting to turn up. People were stoked, we were stoked. Here unfortunately the action shots run a bit dry. To be completely honest we were more into shredding as much pow as possible than stopping for photo ops. Here are some of the on hill shots we did manage to get.

There was a little snow, actually there was a lot of snow.

The Crew: Angela

Elliott

Jake

Me, hangin' loose

People told me Wolf Creek didn't have any steeps, this blind, steep-as-hell, rollover begs to differ.

They even had a rail, would you imagine that...

Grade A Wolf Creek terrain

After some bombing, they opened up this ridge later in the day. We got to ski some bigger lines and hit a fun natural jump. Doesn't look like opening day at your mountain? Bummer.

But before we knew it, the day was over. The lifts turned off and we began to feel how sore we actually were. I can safely say that it was the best opening day I have ever experienced. It felt like a mid winter powder day. The atmosphere was great and the snow was even better.

So sadly we piled back into the Grand Viagra (see below) for the drive back. What we drove through in a white-out 13 hours earlier turned out to be one of the most spectacular stretches of road I have driven in Colorado. A great end to a great day!

The trusty Grand Viagra. She gets the job done.

Like I said, there was a lot of snow.

This great shot was definitely not taken from a moving car, certainly not.

The Blanca massif in the beautiful Sangre de Cristo's.

Southern Colorado is sick.

The gratuitous car driving into the alpenglow blog closer.

Big Thanks to Wolf Creek Ski Resort and the crew (especially Elliott for driving 3 hours of pitch black white-out blizzard at 4 in the morning). Hopefully this is a sign of things to come for the season!