weekend of November 24 to 28:
The 4th Thursday of November, Americans celebrate Thanksgiving. Thursday is a holiday and they take the opportunity to build bridges, which gave us the right to a weekend of 4 days.
was therefore organized with Thibault and Nico, my former classmates who are currently in Meridian, a weekend skiing. So we agreed on the destination: This will be the largest and most prestigious U.S. stations: Aspen, Colorado.
(surely the most expensive too).
We therefore given appointments in Denver on Thursday morning where we rented a car for all the 3:30 road that still separated from Aspen.
We left San Antonio on Wednesday afternoon and we stayed in a hotel near the Denver airport because it was cheaper than taking the plane on Thursday morning as Thibault and Nico.
Our hotel room was beautiful, by the way I do not know if you can call it a room, it was more an apartment: Fully equipped kitchen, living room and bedroom separated by a library and of course a bathroom bigger than us ...
After a good night's sleep, the Avatar in HD on our TV and a good breakfast, we went back Thibault and Nico at the airport in our new rental car: a Chevrolet Impala with snow tires of course since it had been snowing non stop last week.
After crossing a portion of Colorado east to west, we arrived at our hotel in the heart of the resort: The Innsbruck Luxury. A small 4 star hotel in the U.S., ie one bedroom, 2 bathrooms (yes I know it's weird especially for 4 people) and over-equipped kitchen. The pictures speak for 'they even:
We then went to eat the traditional Thanksgiving turkey in one of the few restaurants open. Then nothing like it to digest and recover from our long journey to rest in the hotel jacuzzi heated to 38 ° C knowing the temperature outside was around -17 ° C (yes you read correctly! !).
Friday morning, after having rented our skis, we started to ski the slopes of Aspen Mountain under a bright sun and snow still fresh. In addition, the station that opened the day before, the tracks and especially the lifts were deserted. Short optimal conditions, what happiness!
On Saturday we headed to Snowmass, Aspen station combined with about 30 minutes shuttle. At this time of year, only half of the facilities were open but the resort is so huge that we could not even do all the tracks. The area covers over 1200 hectares (for example Aspen extends from 273 hectares), and the summit is 3813 m. And again the sun and the snow got together.
On Sunday we left the hotel at 8am and headed to Denver. The aircraft Nico and Thibault was at 13h and 17h to ours. We finally arrived in San Antonio to 23h after a stop in Amarillo (North Texas) and a stop in Dallas without ever changing planes (the magic of low-cost airlines ...).
To conclude this long weekend was perfect on all points and we would have stayed a little longer to enjoy the slopes and jacuzzi ...
