Colorado

Day 100 Location: Vail, CO Resorts: 50 out of 50 Well, here we are. The 100th day and the 50th resort. 100DOW kicked off with a big party and ended with an even bigger blow-out. Jeff from The Slanket put me up in his fancy Vail ski house for a coupl...

Day 99 Location: Winter Park, CO Resorts: 49 out 50 At the beginning of this project, I said that I would ride 50 ski areas. I never said that they would all be open. With only two days left in 100DOW and running low on ski areas, I made my way to Be...

Day 97 Location: Idaho Springs, CO Resorts: 48 out of 50 With only a solitary double chair and surrounded by some of the largest ski areas in the country, Echo doesn't try to compete with the big dogs. They're the cheapest and closest ski area to Den...

Day 95 Location: Winter Park, CO Ski Areas: 47 out of 50 I had been to Winter Park twice before and both times I must have missed the entrance to the Mary Jane base area. This is the Winter Park I've been looking for. No crazy base village with pay p...

Day 93 Location: Dillon, CO Ski Areas: 46 out of 50 Back when I worked at Keystone and got a pass to all five Vail Resorts, I frequently found myself up at A-Basin. It was much smaller than Keystone, but there were also way fewer tourists, a populati...

Day 92 Location: Nederland, CO Ski Areas: 45 out of 50 "I love Eldora," the guy on the lift told me. "When I was younger, I used to go to Summit every weekend, but now that I have kids, this is my mountain. My son just rode his first black today." T...

Days 91-92 Location: Steamboat Springs, CO Resorts: 44 out of 50 After growing up on the East Coast, I was unprepared to move to Steamboat Springs, Colorado. My first year there I counted 22 bluebird days in a row, which for a born and raised Vermont...