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February 16, 2006
Just spoke to John at Sunlight Mountain to check on the snow and make plans for my trip up this year. Sunlight has some very cool stuff going on including free Rail and Jump clinics as well as some Freestyle competition:
There are only so many spots available at the X-Games. But at Sunlight Mountain, the competition is open to all comers. Some of the local big hitters take advantage of the opportunity to have a great time and put on an awesome show at the Freestyle Festival. On Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 25 and 26, Sunlight Mountain Resort is proud to host the Bring The Funk Freestyle Festival. It all kicks off Saturday at 10:00am with a free hour-long rail clinic in our newly expanded Centre of the Rockies Terrain Park. Skiers and boarders of all abilities are invited to come out and learn the basics of riding rails. At 11:00am, the Slopestyle Comp starts; and the Snow Skate Jam commences at 3:00pm.Sunday begins with a free one-hour jump clinic at 10:00am followed by a Big Air Comp on Dotsero at 1:00pm. At 3:00pm, there will be a film showing of the Joslin Freeride Invitational from the previous Thursday, Feb. 23. Local jam band, The Hideouts play live music at Sunlight Inn from 4:00 to 6:00pm.
For more information about the Bring The Funk Freestyle Festival, please call us at 1-800-445-7931
Sunlight is comparable in size to Brian Head. I love skiing at the smaller and less crowded resorts because you tend to get a better value out of the trip. Let's be honest, unless you ski an area for three or four days straight or more, the difference between 500 acres and 3,000 does not matter anyway. I find a set of runs I like and I usually stick to them until I get bored. Now it does make a difference in finding freshies, but when the snow is good (and it has been excellent in Colorado this year), I would ski a cornfield with a rope tow if it were steep enough.
I am planning an epic vacation time burning trip in two weeks and plan to hit the resorts in Summit that I have not hit yet as well as spend a good deal of time at Sunlight. At $75 a pop for a ticket at most of the Summit Resorts and more at Vail and Aspen, who wants to pay an extra $35 per day for acreage you are not going to use. The best skiing values I have found are Sunlight, A-Basin, Loveland, Alta, and Brian Head, all coming in around $40-45 per day.
Posted by Justin at February 16, 2006 11:40 AM
