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Spring Skiing

April 21, 2025
Emilie Phillips

The weather and our schedules kept not lining up for a good day of spring skiing. I finally said the heck with it and took this Monday off work. Isaac was stuck going to school, so he couldn’t come skiing. Monday was a gorgeous sunny day. Overnight had been clear and below freezing, but by […]

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New snow for Crescent Ridge

March 23, 2024
Emilie Phillips

The week we returned from skiing in Colorado, it rained, turned warm, and rained more. The pathetic New Hampshire winter was over. Everything below 2,000′ was brown. Rather than desperately scraping my skis on remnants of brown snow, I contented myself with having ended the season with the great skiing in Colorado. And then, winter […]

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Leaving Fowler-Hilliard

March 1, 2024
Emilie Phillips

All good vacations come to an end. Friday we had to leave. First, we enjoyed another breakfast in the company of the other skiers. There was a new pair the previous night. We got to chatting with one of them. She had booked the hut last minute because the winds were too high to fly […]

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Playing at Fowler-Hilliard

February 29, 2024
Emilie Phillips

This day was the reward for our hard work. Isaac had agreed to the whole notion of climbing back up a mountain solely so he could ski laps today.

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The night before, Sunday evening, we had a hard decision to make. Should we continue on to Friends hut?C. back home sent us the abbreviated weather and avalanche forecast via satellite messenger. Forecast @11k ft: MON: High 25F, winds 30mph from W. 1″ snow before sunset. Then 18″ overnight thru TUE AM. Temps drop throughout […]

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Ski Ascent to Tagert Hut

February 25, 2024
Emilie Phillips

This is the third post of the 2024 Colorado Hut Skiing trip. The trek up to Tagert starts on an unplowed road that bisects a groomed cross country ski area. The parking is rather confusing. We hoped we guessed right. At 10AM when we got on the trail, it was sunny and 10F. We all […]

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Four years ago, we attempted a ski vacation to a 10th Mountain Hut high in the Colorado Rockies. That didn’t go as well as we had hoped. Now, a little older and a little wiser, we were back to try another hut 11,300′ high in the Rockies. We booked the Tagert and Friends huts. A […]

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