After a hard week at the office sometimes you just want to go riding with your friends… So that’s what we did today. Earlier in the week we got word that Keystone was dropping the rope on the medium lane of the A51 terrain park. Word quickly spread, text messages were exchanged, instant messages were sent, away messages were set… It was on for Keystone on Saturday. We packed up the Jeep in Boulder early on Saturday morning and headed west towards the mountains to meet up with Colby West, John Symms, Simon Dumont, Willis Brown, Henrik Lampert and Meg Olenick at Keystone to check out the goods in A51.

As the Jeep sped towards the mountains the temperature gauge kept dropping. 14 degrees in Boulder at 6:30, 9 degrees in Idaho Springs on I70 and a balmy 1 degree on the top of Loveland pass around 8:15. Layering was the name of the game today. Thankfully the weather at Keystone was a balmy 10 degrees with bluebird skies.

After a few laps in the park we meet up with Colby West, John Symms, Simon Dumont, Willis Brown and Henrik Lampert. Everyone was doing their thing, enjoying the goods that Keystone had laid out. The first jump is a mellow 25 footer followed by a 40-45 foot table with a cheese-wedge of around 8 feet high. The snowguns were cranking every minute of the day on the large jump line while the snow cats pushed and shaped the foundation for what will become one of the best pro-lines in the world.

Colorado parks & pipe are in amazing shape right now. It won’t be long until park features are at max size and skiing’s elite are working on their moves for competition season.

Check out some of the photos from today, plenty of exciting stuff going on. We’re going to be hitting up Copper tomorrow to check out the superpipe and check in with the Nike 6.0 team.

Stay tuned.