My wife and I have a son that will be 7 years old and a 3 year old daughter and we plan to go skiing over Spring Break (second week of March). We live in Plano, outside Dallas.
My wife grew up skiing, but I've been once (not counting Mt Aggie). We spoke to 2 families and agreed to look at houses in Crested Butte.
Any advice? Anything you wish you knew? Or things you couldn't believe first timers didn't know? I know next to nothing. We'd appreciate house recommendations for 6 adults and 8 kids, equipment rental/purchase recommendations, ski recs, or general recs.
We plan to get a house near the lifts, and expect to have everybody in lessons for at least one day. We'll try to drive to Colorado Springs one day, and finish the trip the next day. We hope to go with three ski days, resting one day in between.
My assumption was that we'd start at Red River or Angel Fire before we "graduated" to nicer mountains, but my wife would rather go somewhere with our friends and she's been to Crested Butte several times so is comfortable there. Is it crazy to start at Crested Butte?
My wife grew up skiing, but I've been once (not counting Mt Aggie). We spoke to 2 families and agreed to look at houses in Crested Butte.
Any advice? Anything you wish you knew? Or things you couldn't believe first timers didn't know? I know next to nothing. We'd appreciate house recommendations for 6 adults and 8 kids, equipment rental/purchase recommendations, ski recs, or general recs.
We plan to get a house near the lifts, and expect to have everybody in lessons for at least one day. We'll try to drive to Colorado Springs one day, and finish the trip the next day. We hope to go with three ski days, resting one day in between.
My assumption was that we'd start at Red River or Angel Fire before we "graduated" to nicer mountains, but my wife would rather go somewhere with our friends and she's been to Crested Butte several times so is comfortable there. Is it crazy to start at Crested Butte?