2/1 and my best friend and our two sons headed for 5 days of skiing in the Dillon Colorado area as well as great eats and beverage. We were blown away with both of our goals. We ski’d Breckenridge, Vail and Keystone and all three were off the charts for conditions with keystone being the grand surprise. Plenty of tree trail skiing, with long glides and something for everyone. Dillon was a great location for cost effective rental accomadations and an easy drive to all major areas. My buddy Tim and I are pretty handy in the kitchen as well as my son Chris so we ate great breakfasts everyday and found a local mexican grocery for fresh local chorizo, eggs, fresh made corn tortillas, roasted jalepeno and Oaxaca cheese. Each day brought different variations of this theme with one other day we did a variation on an Italian theme with poached eggs set upon a warmed up gourmet pizza that we had ordered the night before specially for this occasion.

We enjoyed a wonderful evening of fine, small plate dining in Vail at the “Sweet Basil Restaurant”. Thier crispy braised pork belly was so enticing that after the kitchen sent out a complimentory plate for “fellas in the trade” we ordered a plate for each of us as there was no way we would share this dishe with each other. Two hours later after heavy damage to the credit card we retreated to our nightly hang out, “Whiskey & Goat” in Dillon. A great dive bar with local micro brews, the best smoked chicken wings in memory. The wings are slow smoked over mesquite and then quickly deep fried and finished with a maple bbq sauce. Awsome ! We played pool for hours each evening and then were on the slopes each day at 9 or so. Can’t beat Colorado for skiing !