Our local ski area, Alpental, has amazing *sidecountry* skiing. A short chair lift ride, a 15 minutes of hiking, and you can find amazing untracked (or lightly tracked) runs. More outdoors photos here
Updated: Feb 22, 2007 5:15pm PST
My brother Alex is a serious skier. At least once a year for the past serveral years, he has done at least one multi-day backcountry ski tour in Europe. I couldn't afford a trip to Europe, but I had enough air miles to get to Colorado, and I had read about this (relatively) new ski area, Silverton Mountain. So Alex and I went for a week ...
Updated: Nov 14, 2006 9:49pm PST
An afternoon at the skate bowl at Ballard Commons Park More outdoors photos here
Updated: Jun 22, 2006 2:36pm PST