170 | Super Bowl Powder at Vail | 5-6 Feb 2011

There are a few days a year where Vail Mountain will be completely empty: Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, and Super Bowl Sunday. With a strong NW system pushing its way into Colorado, Vail was expected to get around 1-1.5" of precipitation; little did we know that would turn into 30" of fluff from Friday through Monday morning and 40" through Tuesday. Fortunately, the Super Bowl did keep the crowds away but with the biggest snow day of the year likely on hand, all the locals were out in full force. Still, there was more than enough to go around and this was easily the best weekend of shredding in a long time, especially when sharing the slopes with my Eagle County buddies Matt, Sean, and Christian who I haven't skied with in nearly two years.