TR - 4/1/07 East Portal

HikeforTurns · **Posted:** Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:20 pm

Went for a fun half day tour with LBR and his bud Kurt up to the Indian Peaks on Sunday. East Portal is the Eastern entrance/exit of the Moffat Tunnel, going from high above Boulder to Winter Park, Co. Its a pretty popular area for skiers, but we managed to find some fun turns. We followed the Forest Lakes trail, then headed up to Arapaho Lakes. Round trip was around 6 miles, 2,000'.

^the stuff we rode above treeline

The cirque above Arapaho Lake, with Frosty showing off.

Kurt

LBR

Good to meet your LBR an Kurt, well have to do it again sometime.

TEX · **Posted:** Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:57 pm

Your snow looks better than our snow. Looks sssoooooffftttt

SanFrantastico · **Posted:** Wed Apr 04, 2007 9:22 pm

Sweetness! Nice riding, guys. HikeforTurns - way to represent CO lately!

IridePow · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2007 7:04 am

Nice stuff guys!

Snow looks pretty good.
A little wind blown on top, but still pretty soft.

jonpierre · **Joined:** Thu Jun 29, 2006 3:10 pm **Posts:** 42

sick! love that area. frosty looks good
nice airs!!

LBR · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:25 am

Great shots HikeforTurns! Thanks for posting up.
Let's go shred again, this time with a proper early start, more vert, more turns and no :oops:

brown bottle flu!

kjkrow · **Posted:** Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:21 am

HikeForTurns ...

Sweet pics. Were you guys able to drive all the way up to the East Portal. I've only been up there in Summer, but I would guess they plow to their for any needed access on the railroad or tunnel? Not really sure, just curious. Thanks.

HikeforTurns · **Posted:** Sat Apr 07, 2007 7:00 pm

Thanks Guys.

LBR- Im down to go again sometime, tommorow is out though, Have a good time

kjkrow. road is good to go, your right about the maintenance for the RR

bcrider · **Posted:** Sat Apr 07, 2007 7:03 pm

Sweet pics guys!

LBR · **Posted:** Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:32 am

Hey there HikeforTurns, Kurt and I went there again yesterday. It snowed all day, 18" of HEAVY snow. Difficult traveling and riding in the trees. The exit trail was better yesterday, buit everything else was better last week when we went.
It was very unstable at tree-line, as we discovered firsthand, knocking loose a rather large (12-18" deep, approx. 150' across) soft slab that ran around 200' into the trees. Exciting.
Kurt took some shots, I'll try to get them posted with a full report this week.
I'd love to do another tour with you as well, so let's talk later in the week about the coming weekend. I'll be available Sunday, Saturday only if it rains/snows in the Front Range-skateboarding programs most Saturdays.............

pdiddy · **Joined:** Wed Nov 15, 2006 2:55 pm **Posts:** 3

Nicely done HfT, we hit Frostys a few weeks ago and had a blast. I'd like to head back up there soon for some corn harvesting- let me know if you are interested.

P

jaydubmah · **Joined:** Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:30 am **Posts:** 22

Good style on the down line! Nice airs too!

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