Jehuda Ish-Shalom

Review of Loveland Ski Area

Great place, special. Free cat ride to the Conti...

Great place, special. Free cat ride to the Continental Divide and ski down from there was great. There is an advanced intermediate way back down staring by going back on Cat track up, easy. After more difficult but advanced Intermediate should be able to do. Need to sign an extra wavier to be able to get an orange access card good for the session. Was easy, fast and not busy or real wait to go up with cat. Rides started at 10:30am until 2pm. Rides are only run now Wednesday to Sunday. No Monday or Tuesday.
The National Park Ranger ski down and explenations was great. Had 6 Rangers going along. Mostly one, really good, gave lecture. Program developed over 2 years by 2 Rangers that were there. Uses lots of great additional teaching aids, maps, pictures, puppets chikedy bird, real educational pellets of animals that you get to touch including even a real Lynx fur. Super great program but the starting time needs improvement otherwise the program kills almost all the ski day.
Started at 1:30pm for 1.5 hours, ended 3:15 pm after 4 lecture segments with great demonstrations stops along ski down. I think would be much better to start at 3pm and make last lecture demonstration at 4pm at base after lifts stop. This way have 30+ minutes longer, or more, and leave almost all day for ski until 3pm when start at the top.
Program was offered only once in 2 weeks in April 2017 when I visited. We had big group of 20+ people that were very interested and ranged from young adults to older people about 50% mix. Great education, good if can do more and also make a shorter version.