We packed up our gear and headed out to the mountain around 8:30am to be there right when it opened at nine. It was actually most of the same route we took to the hot pools the night before. But, you turn off a bit early and head up into the mountain.
There are three ski parks in the area that are essentially run by the same company, so the ski pass is good for all the parks. So, we started the day thinking we would ski Coronet Peak for a while, then hop over to The Remarkables and ski that park, too. It didn’t take us long to realize that two parks in one day certainly wasn’t going to happen. (We forgot how exhausting skiing is.)
Coronet Peaks was incredible! We kicked it off on the Meadow Express runs, figuring we should warm up a bit. It’s been a couple months since we skied. Them we moved onto the real deal and took the Coronet Express straight to the top! Our first true run was down M1, a “gentle” back and fourth down the mountain. We eventually made it over to the Greengates Express by taking M1 to Million Dollar and merging with Greengates to get to the bottom.
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Fun Fact: The trail rating is dependent on the mountain itself. So, the difficulty of “black diamonds” don’t match across ski parks. That said, a black diamond run at Bittersweet back home, is pretty much a beginner hill at Coronet Peak.
So, that said, we stayed on the intermediate (blue) trails all day and were PLENTY challenged on those. We made it a solid five hours (with a couple snack breaks) before our legs couldn’t take it any more. At that point, we weren’t sure we could successfully make it down the slopes. Oh, and Ryan dropped a pole off the lift. That’s how we knew it was surely time to call it a day.
Top of the lift
Trail to ski- most looked like you could fall right off the edge
Another trail- stay to the right of the fence
Action shot!
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