fins85258
Reged: 05/02/05
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If anyone is heading for Purgatory next week let me know and we can try to arrange a meeting.
Gregg & Karen
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Mike R
Reged: 05/26/03
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Loc: Stinson Lake - New Hampshire
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what the hell are you doing going there with all the really great mountains another hour or two away?.....and if youre down there...Wolf Creek is the best of the bunch followed by Silverton
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fins85258
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Karen picked the spot this year. She has never been in the area so we're going to see a couple of things along the way, Mesa Verde, ride the Durango Silverton RR.
We have done Telluride 3 times, Vail / Beaver Creek 2, Copper Mt. 1. Mammoth Mt was off the charts last year with 668 " of snow.
The up side is it's my turn to pick the Oct. vacation spot.
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Mike R
Reged: 05/26/03
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Loc: Stinson Lake - New Hampshire
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well...enjoy...I'd come down and join you for the day but I am off to New Hampshire Saturday for a house inspection...my lovely, darling wife just purchased a circa 1845 ol New Englander farmhouse that we are supposedly going to live in.......I need to see this for myself so I'm headin east....
so things could be worse....Karen just picked a ski vacation....LMAO
plenty of snow...you'll like it....go to Wolf Creek
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bto
Reged: 04/10/03
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fins,
We have family who own a home in Durango and we've been there several times...love it, although Purgatory is not my favorite ski place, it's fun...There is a nice restaurant in town, great wine list...maybe MikeR knows...I can't think of the name but it's someones name...we went several times...right in the middle of the block...check out the old hotel that's in town...very cool place.
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Mike R
Reged: 05/26/03
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Loc: Stinson Lake - New Hampshire
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dont know the restaurant bev...but when I head down there its not to go to Purgatory....its to go to Wolf Creek or Silverton.... I just wasnt impressed with Purgatory's terrain much... too much intermediate stuff
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fins85258
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Loc: Scottsdale, Az
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Bev,
We found a fun looking Log Cabin B&B called Logwood about half way between Durango and Purgatory.
Mike,
Karen is from New Hampshire and her mother lives up on the mountain in Gilford / Laconnia overlooking Lake Winnipesaukee. Where are you moving to and which college are you going to be coaching at?
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Mike R
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Loc: Stinson Lake - New Hampshire
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Fins..well we have a place in the resort at Waterville Valley...but we re sick of living in a resort and dont want to raise the little one in a resort environment...so we bought this house in a very small town about a half hour outside the resort called Dorchester..population 346....very rural...a horse farm across the street from us and lots of organic farms near by.....very much right up our alley, and the house really does look cool but it needs some work, which Wendi at least is looking forward to doing...this is her baby...her project..Im just along for the ride but I do love the area we are moving into..I will be coaching at Plymouth State University about 20 minutes from the house and the midpoint between the house and the resort..Plymouth is a classic New England college town in every sense of the word..something right out of a Norman Rockwell painting
its all about 40 minutes north of where Karen is from
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fins85258
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Loc: Scottsdale, Az
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Soon you'll be enjoying the chowder festivel in Portsmouth.......what a great time.
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bto
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Sounds lovely to me....although I'm pretty close to done with home renovations after 5 years of it...I want to say the restaurant was Ken & Sue's? It was always packed and very good...
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JoshA
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Loc: Virginia
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There is a nice restaurant in town, great wine list...maybe MikeR knows...I can't think of the name but it's someones name...we went several times...right in the middle of the block...check out the old hotel that's in town...very cool place.
Bev,
The hotel you're thinking of is probably The Strater - near the narrow-gauge train. Hold your ears when the whistle blows! There is a large Mexican restaurant called Francisco's nearby. It's a mountain biking mecca but I agree that skiing is better elsewhere in the San Juans. Durango has really exploded in population lately.
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fins85258
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Loc: Scottsdale, Az
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A short trip report,
I like to drive and see the sights and the 8 hours from Snottsdale to Durango is full of things to see. It's also alot cheaper than the $900 + per person to fly in and rent a car. Durango may not be Vail or Beaver Creek or Copper Mt or A-Basin but it is NORTH TEXAS! My New Hampshire / Norwiegen wife was in culture shock for a day or so but she figured out that even though they "Taughlk Funny" they are nice people.
We found a great place to stay half way between Durango and Purgatory called the LogWood B&B, I highly recommend it. Guess who owns it?????????? No, not him...... YEP, someone from Texas. I swear ya can't swing a dead or bar-b-qued dog(for AndyNap)around there without hittin someone TX. In short, the nice thing about Durango is it's laid back, short on the usual high dollar resort jerks and resonably priced. There a lots of great places to eat and not much of a wait tithout reservations. Besides, if it's dark I'm drinkin'.
Purgatory is generally a real nice 50% intermediate mountain so if you like to cruise most of the day you can without a crowd. They keep things well groomed and give you a variety groomed and moguled stuff all over the mountain. If you head to the top of the main lift and then work your way west all morning you beat any kind of crowd. Ski from 9:00 to a late lunch around 1:30 and then work your way back for closing of the lifts @ 4:00.
We took a rest day on wednesday and road the narrow guage train from Durango to about half way or so to Silverton. Also highly recommended. For the trip home, Karen and I took a side trip to Mesa Verde National Park to view the cliff dwellings on the Colorado Plateau and left the Meteor Crator for another time.
All in all it was a great time but the snow was goin fast EVERYWHERE. It was a mirror in the morning and a snowcone in the late afternoon but so was Telluride, Vail, Bever Creek, Copper Mt., A-Basin and everywhere else in Colorado.
Eat your words MikeR.......and tips or fins up )(~~^~/\~
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