Kirkwood Village - Recent renovations!

Eric and Tish were both introduced to snow skiing at a young age. Growing up in families with a love of vacations AND skiing, we each skied many great slopes. (Along with aunts and uncles, cousins, family friends, ski bums and other vagabonds!) Between us we traveled to Snow Shoe, Killington, Steamboat, Arapaho Basin, Keystone, Copper, Breckenridge, Alta, Snowbird, Austria, Beech Mountain, Sugar Mountain, Seven Devils, Vail, Beaver Creek, Snowbird, Alta, Solitude, Brighton, and Park City. Our snow skiing resumes were long for a country boy from North Alabama and a saltwater girl from the central East coast of Florida.
When we met at Auburn University in August of 1991, stories of snow ski trips dominated the conversation. By December, Eric was on his first ski trip with Tish's family to Canaan Valley, WV and Timberline and the next era in our ski vacations began.
In 1993 we went to Crested Butte, CO; in 1994 we missed our trip because we were getting married. Over the next 18 years, we took a ski trip almost every year, with 6-14 family members, college friends, family friends, and other loved-ones and ski bums we picked up along the way.
One of our first trips in those post-college days was Lake Tahoe in 1997 with 16 people. We skied at Heavenly, Squaw, Alpine Meadows, Sierra and Kirkwood. The skiing we great; the party was epic.
In those 18 years our annual trips also included Steamboat (3 times), Park City, Snowmass (3 times), Big Sky, Jackson Hole, Bad Gastein (Austria), Whistler, Breckenridge, and many, many trips to Beech Mountain, where Tish's parents have a place. We took some side trips along the way to Vail, Aspen, Deer Valley, the Canyons, and Beaver Creek. There was usually a crowd, and we ALWAYS had a great time!
We took our son to Snowmass in February 2005 (12 mos old) and our daughter to Copper in 2009 (5 mos. old). Over the years it’s become more complicated to get the group together, but we almost always found time for a trip.

We bought this place in March of 2014, after only a few visits to Kirkwood.

For our Spring Break 2013 trip, it looked as if only a few of the die hards would join our annual trip, so we planned a trip to Kirkwood since some friends from CA have a condo in Basecamp that we could use. Right after we booked flights, another family decided to join us, then another, then another. We ended up with 25 people in 4 condos and had an amazing week. We were hooked! The snow is great, the mountain has the perfect mix of terrain, it's not too big and not too small, the price is affordable, and the local hospitality is second to none.

After nine months of thinking about it and rationalizing it, we came back to Kirkwood for our 20 year wedding anniversary in January 2014 to look at condos. The minute we walked into Meadowstone Lodge #204, we felt at home immediately and we knew this is where the next era of out ski memories would be made. We look forward to our kids having fond memories of all the trips here over the years and we know those memories will be as special to them as our family ski vacation memories are to us. We'll still visit other mountains, but this is now our ski home.

All the Best,
Tish, Eric, Parker and Payton