As I was browsing around the inter-highway today, I noticed some very reasonable airfares to/from Denver from Detroit. Like $89 each way reasonable. Looking at the first/second week of April. I know the season hasn’t been epic, although in the last week or so CO has gotten some massive dumps, so I’m hopeful that the resorts will keep enough snow to ride through the official end-of-season as determined by their bottom line, the U.S. Forest Service, and their term insurance policies which govern their close date.
Now all that’s left is convincing the wife that spending a few days and going to Colorado for a long weekend in April is a good idea. I’m playing the “It’ll be warm!” card. And she seems receptive to the idea of snowboarding or skiing on a real mountain.
The front-runner right now is probably Winter Park for its proximity to Denver airport but there are some very affordable places to stay in WP, too. We could take a non-stop AM flight and land around 10am, which would give us plenty of time to hit the slopes on the arrival day if we were up for it. However, I’m open to really any resort which still has sufficient snow that time of year. Arriving that early means there’s plenty of time even to make the drive to Vail/Beaver Creek. The key variable will probably be lodging expenses.
