Trip Take: Copper Mountain
Our family wrapped up the 2023 ski season with a trip to Copper Mountain. I’d never skied at Copper, and it had been years since Mark had. Because we so often see signs for it on our way to points farther west on I-70, visiting Copper seemed like an attractive, simple Spring Break choice.
Trip Take: Winter Park
We consider signing our kids up for lessons every time we take a trip. Z still needs the confidence to stay parallel on the steeps, and H needs to ski with kids more capable than his sister so he can be challenged and seek out real adventure. When we made the shift to Winter Park for the holiday weekend, we discovered that all-day group lessons were available for kids of all abilities, and conveniently, all lessons depart from the same base area. The terrain at Winter Park is varied and interesting, and lessons were $70 less expensive than group offerings at Sun Valley had been. We were sold.
Big Mountain Adventures: Vail
With our kids now confident on skis, we were ready to explore the bigger mountains out west. Choosing somewhere familiar for the kids’ first venture west made the most sense. Having lived in Vail in the early 00's, I was comfortable with the town and the mountain. In hindsight, our decision to pick a place we knew well was a smart one: it allowed us to focus on the skiing.