Employee Ski Day

We just had a great time skiing, eating and playing games at our end-of-season party today. What a perfect way to end the season for all our employees!

For all the employees- here's the slideshow that was supposed to play at the party...

Thank You

Thank you everyone for a great season! We look forward to having you back for the 2009-10 season. In the meantime, come visit us this summer for all our activities and events!

First Tracks

Look at all those people that got out there for firsts today. Good job!

UPDATE: Single round-trip bus passes for this weekend are available at Traz for $8

March Madness

This is our very own March Madness! I've tallied it up and we've had 30 inches of snow this week! We picked up another foot in the last 24 hours (8 inches of that was during lift hours yesterday).

With lift tickets at $35 (just $25 for guys) it's MADNESS if you don't come this weekend.

FYI- Highway 65 is closed on top of the mesa until about noon today for avalanche control.

Pow Pow Pics

Plenty O' Powder

Wow fresh snow every day this week! We're really going out with a bang! It's currently not snowing (9am) but we're forecast to get 5-9" throughout the day.

Here's just a few random pieces of information that we want to update you on:

We've dropped the special ticket price for Men's Weekend (Saturday & Sunday) to $25 so the guys get a deal too. We'll also have beer specials, live music and chair massages for all.

Sunday is closing day and we always encourage you to dress up and celebrate! Many people go old school with their outfits but I know there will be some interesting characters out on the slopes too.

The SlushSprocket will be held on Saturday at 3pm with registration at 2pm in the lodge. $5 to enter, winner takes the whole cash pot. It'll be 2 heats, shotgun starts, from Midway down on Peacemaker. Perfect location for everyone to watch! Only requirement for competitors is that you listen to your mother and wear a helmet!

One of the bears is out frolicking in the powder this morning. We just saw him cross Redeye....lucky little sneak.

p.s. Wow was I wrong with the title of that last post. Good thing to be wrong about!

UPDATE: 10:30AM 8" in the last 24 hours, snowing hard!

The Last One

It's a POWDER DAY!!!

Most likely the last one of the season so drop what you're doing and get to the mountain! Lift tickets are still only $35.

Have fun!

UPDATE: A group of us just skied Yoohoo, Showdown/Quickdraw and it was goooood! You have to keep your knees loose though.
Also, for Men's Weekend (this Saturday & Sunday) we are dropping tickets to $25 for the fellas!

Spring Snow

It's good to see snow falling again and temperatures that start with a 3 rather than 5! We've picked up an inch so far...3-5 inches expected throughout the day today and more tonight.

New snow + $35 tickets = good last week

West End Closed

The West End lift is now closed as we have bears very active on the slopes over there! Some of you may remember that this happened a couple years ago. The warm temperatures have caused some bear dens to open up a little early. We don't want to disturb them so we've made the call to close that side of the mountain.

Because of the closing, lift tickets are now just $35!

Rubber Ducky You're The One

The staff here at Powderhorn are having a blast planning for Closing Weekend (which is next weekend). We're encouraging everyone to dress up in old school ski attire or a costume of any kind. I know for a fact there will be a Spiderman and several 70s skiers....I've even heard rumor of a penguin showing up.

You'll start to notice lots of rubber duckies floating around too. Late in the afternoon a pond forms right after the load ramp on the Take Four quad. Each day there's more rubber ducks hanging out there.

Start thinking now about your costume for closing day! I'm going to check out Mad Margret's today, see what I can find. That's on 1st street if you live in Grand Junction.

SlushSprocket Bike Race

The 3rd Annual SlushSprocket Bike Race is coming up and we're getting excited already! It's purely selfish...we just like to see if people can make it down.

We'll get you to the top, it's your job to get down!

Saturday, March 28
2pm Registration

3pm Race
Shotgun start, at least 2 heats
$5 to enter
Winner takes home the cash pot
*Helmets required*

One More

With only 12 days left in the season, we'd all love one more powder day. The forecast is calling for perfectly sunny skies. So what the heck is that thing out over the Pacific??



I pulled this image off the satellite this morning....come to mama!

Graphic Design Needed

We are looking for a graphic designer to work on a project-by-project basis. Knowledge of the industry and Powderhorn extremely helpful. Projects include brochures, trail map, print ads, logo design and other smaller items.

If you're interested, please email resume and samples of your work (preferably in pdf) to sallen@powderhorn.com. Feel free to email me as well if you have any questions.

How's the Tan?

How's your goggle tan coming along? Only ten days left to work on it before the pictures are due! It looks like the perfect goggle tanning conditions all week.

Here are the details.

A big welcome to our out-of-state spring breakers!

Spring Lift Hours

Many of you have requested it and so it shall be done! With it being light out so late now, we will be shifting the hours of lift operation to 10am-5pm. This will provide extended skiing & riding on soft conditions.

The change goes in effect on MONDAY the 16th and will run through the rest of the season. All department hours will shift up one hour as well. Enjoy!

Random Photo of the Day

This just might be our most random yet...





Yep, he's real

Please Help!

We would be so grateful if you took a minute to give us some information! We have a short online survey, it should only take 2 minutes. You DO NOT have to provide your name.

Click here

Big Weekend

There's a lot of preparation going on right now for this weekend. It's competition craziness!

Saturday
Top O' the Mesa Rail Jam
Registration 12pm- lodge lobby
Competition 1pm- Upper Showdown
Up-Flat-Down rail
$5 to enter
Prizes for Top Rider, Top Skier, Best Trick, Best Crash
Prizes from Traz, Smith, Bern, Sessions, Flow, DC, Dakine

Saturday & Sunday
USSA J5 Finals
Ski racers from all over the rocky mountain states will be here going for gold! Catch the fast action all weekend. Go Powderhorn Race Team!

POWDER DAY!

8" overnight and still snowing. We're all headed out for first tracks! If it continues to snow hard we'll post accumulation updates.

By the way if you're on Twitter you can follow us for real time updates.

UPDATE: Well it stopped snowing and its a PERFECT bluebird day now! There's still plenty of fresh tracks to be had if you can sneak away...

Mascot Race Video

The Great Mascot Race went off on Saturday with no injuries and lots of laughter. ESPN backed out at the last minute, so we had to do the video ourselves...

The Great Mascot Race

Conditions were challenging but that didn't stop the mascots!

1st Rib City Grill
2nd Moose 100.7
3rd Maverick the Moose

Winter is Back

Finally! It's officially dumping right now. This storm didn't really get things going until around 5am this morning. We've had 2 inches in the last couple hours and it's snowing big fluffy flakes right now. Hopefully this continues throughout the day!

If you're coming up today, don't forget to be on Peacemaker or at the base area by 1:00 so you can see the mascots going for broke!

Update: 9:15am We're at 6" now!
Update: 10:15am Hard to keep up, 8" now. Going skiing!

Carb Up

The Wildewood Restaurant just posted a new deal:

All you can eat pizza & pasta bar- $9.95 includes pizza by the slice, assorted pastas, garlic bread and salad. March 7-8 and 14-15.

Perfect for those racers!

It's Snowing!

Before I could even get to the blog to post this morning, someone had already posted a comment with exactly what I wanted to say: IT'S SNOWING!!!!

After I get my morning cup of coffee I'll post the Friday Feed with conditions & terrain park updates plus the scoop on this weekend.

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Ok, here's the Friday Feed (covers conditions, forecast, terrain park update, upcoming races and Spring Break deals).

And here's a random photo of the day. There are tons of Blue Jays hanging out at our offices...

Trash Talking

Stopped into the radio studios this morning to do a little trash talking for the upcoming mascot race. Maverick the Moose will be competing against Major Moose from Moose 100.7 and the weird "snowboarding sumo" mascot from Magic 93.1

Mary & The Grizz plus weird sumo mascot



The mascot and I face off



Don't miss the race! This Saturday, 1pm!
Compeitors:
Rib City Grille
Wendy's
Famous Dave's BBQ
Moose 1007.
Magic 93.1
Maverick

E-news Trivia

In case you don't receive our e-newsletter, there's not only a lot of good info in this month's edition, but also a good trivia question.

Read it here

43 people have answered correctly so far. Can you figure it out?

Grow Your Goggle Tan

It's March which means it's officially goggle tan season. So we're announcing the...

Grow Your Goggle Tan Contest

Step 1: Ski or ride as much as possible
Step 2: Monitor your goggle tan (aka raccoon eyes)
Step 3: When it's ripe, take a photo and send to ski@powderhorn.com

We'll post the photos online. The person with the best goggle tan will win a Plus Card for next season! Contest closes March 26th so get your pictures in by then!

p.s. You can still get your goggle tan while wearing sunblock, so lather up!

Demo Sale

Want to snag a pair of skis at a good price? Our rental shop is selling some of the high-performance demo skis.

Alpine
K2
Volkl

Telemark
G3
Black Diamond binding sets

Stop in the rental shop and talk to Amanda. Sale runs through the end of the month.