I finally get to check out of the dodgy hostel and am picked up by Austen to go snowboarding. We meet at Jess and Austen's place, which is a really really really nice apartment, and I suit up with some thermal gear Jess has lent me. We are heading to Arapahoe Basin, a place which both of them frequent, along with Dan, Mel and Scott. The drive there is pleasant with some great scenery. It takes a little over an hour to get there but some of the views of the mountains are spectacular. The mountains are snowcapped and in some areas the road has been snowploughed, leaving a ridge of packed snow. The mountains are also covered with pine trees which are densely packed together. This was very different from the mountains I usually see,
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