Want to ski at Breckenridge-
Nov 16th, 2011, 05:16 AM
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Want to ski at Breckenridge-
Looking to go to Breckenridge in January and wanted to know your opinions on skiing for intermediate and beginners? Also does anyone has good suggestions on where to stay. It would be nice to stay in the main town if possible. There will be two of us. Are there any lodges or small hotels or is everything condos to rent?
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Nov 16th, 2011, 07:00 AM
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Breck is well geared to the beginners and intermediate ski with decent separation. Peak 10 is solely for advance skiers and Peak 7 is most a beginners area with 8 and 9 a mix of both. The area is loaded with thousand of condos so finding a place to stay especially in January is not a problem. Avoid the MLK weekend if you can. Many of the condos will be ski out and some both in and out. The town has an excellent free bus system that you can easily get around without a car. Try the VRBO or other condo web site plus the Breckenridge web site.
Nov 16th, 2011, 09:46 AM
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You'll love Breckenridge - great little town. I'm wearing gloves today that I bought at a terrific glove shop in town. I also get spices (by mail now) from a store I found in Breckenridge:
http://www.handandglove.com/index.htm
https://secure.spicemerchants.biz/sm/ (the "Butcher's Rub" is fabulous on pork chops)
We stayed at Grand Lodge on Peak 7. It's not right in town (5 minutes drive), but it is ski in-ski out, which we liked, and the place is lovely (the suite was tight for 3 people, but we were in the smallest size available). We didn't have any problem driving into town, and parking was fairly easy.
http://www.handandglove.com/index.htm
https://secure.spicemerchants.biz/sm/ (the "Butcher's Rub" is fabulous on pork chops)
We stayed at Grand Lodge on Peak 7. It's not right in town (5 minutes drive), but it is ski in-ski out, which we liked, and the place is lovely (the suite was tight for 3 people, but we were in the smallest size available). We didn't have any problem driving into town, and parking was fairly easy.
Nov 16th, 2011, 01:29 PM
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free transportation all across the numerous towns there.. being close to a bus stop or on the slopes is more important to me. Frisco is a nice town, also, and you have the free shuttle station there that take you to all three ski areas. It is much smaller than breck, though, but very nice.
Nov 16th, 2011, 01:30 PM
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I think you will also like Copper Mountain. I loved their daily free guided mountain tours. They gave me someone to ski with for awhile when my husband and son went off to do their more advanced slopes.
Nov 16th, 2011, 06:45 PM
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I got an email from oyster.com today and this was one of the items in the email:
http://www.oyster.com/breckenridge/h...e85a1594cd90aa
Looks nice.
http://www.oyster.com/breckenridge/h...e85a1594cd90aa
Looks nice.
Nov 17th, 2011, 05:03 AM
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Take at least one day of lessons for each of you, even though you will be in separate classes, unless you want to spring for a private lesson. It is the prime way to improve your skiing, and your fun doing it.
Nov 19th, 2011, 11:17 PM
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you may find coupons for them also. Another activity we LOVED out of Frisco was a snow mobile tour off mountain in a fabulous area.
Here's one company.
http://www.coloradosnowmobile.com/
Here's one company.
http://www.coloradosnowmobile.com/
Dec 19th, 2011, 12:17 PM
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I rent a car. Cost can be comparable and you get the freedom to set your own schedule. I'm guessing the services are so standardized that the differences are negligible - like airport parking companies.
There's no reason that a shuttle would be cheap - they drive you two hours from the airport and the same or more back, and the conditions for driving can suck on two levels: weather and traffic. You have to drive THROUGH Denver no matter what, which sucks because it's a major city AND because I-70 is woefully undersized for the traffic conditions (just three lanes each way through central Denver when I last went . . . this may have changed). If you're returning to Denver on a Sunday, prepare for serious traffic snarls because everyone goes to I-70 to return to the city from the slopes.
And the trip to/from Breck requires negotiating some of the snowiest, slickest Interstate roadway in the US if a storm hits (did this in a rented Altima in '08). It snows in them thar mountains.
There's no reason that a shuttle would be cheap - they drive you two hours from the airport and the same or more back, and the conditions for driving can suck on two levels: weather and traffic. You have to drive THROUGH Denver no matter what, which sucks because it's a major city AND because I-70 is woefully undersized for the traffic conditions (just three lanes each way through central Denver when I last went . . . this may have changed). If you're returning to Denver on a Sunday, prepare for serious traffic snarls because everyone goes to I-70 to return to the city from the slopes.
And the trip to/from Breck requires negotiating some of the snowiest, slickest Interstate roadway in the US if a storm hits (did this in a rented Altima in '08). It snows in them thar mountains.
