What People Are Saying About Arapahoe Basin Ski Area
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The Scene – The highest ski area in North America (13,050 feet at the summit), this is one of the few places in Colorado where the lifts rise a significant distance above timberline. The high-alpine environment means you may contend with bitter-cold weather at midwinter. It also means that this upper bowl usually holds snow through July. – – The Slopes – A-Basin is a magnet for spring skiers. The long, warm days of March to June--when most of the slide zones have settled down and the road over Loveland Pass is dry--are the best time to hit the Basin. The custom is to…
11/11/05
Awesome but outdated
by nadedodger
It s an awesome resort. as pepole have said before, it s a challenge and it s got a lot of a local feel and it s user friendly. the only drawback is their lifts. they re so damn old and slow. it seems like it takes forever to get up, and if you re a good skier/rider, it takes no time to get down if you re just doing some speed runs down the blues. by the way, their blues is what you d normally find as blacks at Breck or Keystone. The east wall is amazing if you get to it as soon as it opens. 46 degree steeps of pure fun and powder. especially if you hike the shoots and gap the lower traverse line on the way down. It s a fun mountain enjoyable even if you go on your own.
- Pros: Free close in parking, great beer selection, challenging runs
- Cons: old lifts, slow lifts
12/12/04
REAL Skiing
by pdonoho
This area is incredibly underated. However, that being said, if you're a vain skier, more into the scene and seeing and being seen, you'd best take your self-loving-self somewhere else because this hill is too much for you. Olympians train here, European ski groups are in awe here, real people have a real good time here. It is a pure experience of what skiing should be, and used to be. If you'd like to spend your time with great friends, eating real food, drinkin' good beer, enjoying what I think is the top 3 scenery resorts in Colorado and having a REAL experience which also just happens to save you probably hundreds of dollars, then A-Basin is THE place to go on the front range. The mid-winter skiing is just as good as most other front range areas by the way, wind can be a problem at any of them.
- Pros: inexpensive, GREAT parking, integrity
- Cons: , not for the vain
01/03/03
Please don't go here. I love it here.
by ironicday
The only problem with this hill is that its either very easy or very hard. The hard part is on the far right side (if your looking up the hill.) ENJOY!
- Pros: Hard!
- Cons: Hard!
The Details on Arapahoe Basin Ski Area
The Extras:
On-site facilities are Spartan--just a small base lodge cafeteria with a single set of bathrooms and a mid-mountain barbecue joint. Add a rental shop, a ski school office, four fixed-grip lifts and you have a first-class 1960s-era ski area.
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