I love to snowboard. I’ve been out west several times, but its always so expensive that I can’t go very often, stay very long, or convince very many people to go with. Fortunately, the University of Iowa has a Ski and Snowboard Club to help make things more fun and less expensive. I went on their snowboarding trip over break for a few reasons: 1) I figured it would be sweet going with a ton of kids from Iowa, and 2) it was CHEAP.<\/p>\n
Seriously, we stayed in awesome, ski-in\/ski-out condos for 5 nights and had four days of snowboarding in Aspen, CO; and it all cost $409. Maybe that doesn’t sound cheap if you’ve never been to Colorado to snowboard, but I can tell you from personal experience that planning a trip like this for twice that price would be a challenge. Lift tickets alone cost close to $100\/day and condos are expensive<\/em>. Especially ones like these, we had kitchens, balconies and were literally less than 100 feet from a trail.<\/p>\n Enough economics. I had a blast! Any trip out west is guaranteed to be the highlight of a winter, but this was my best trip yet. Aspen isn’t just any mountain; in fact, its actually four mountains, and every one of them is great. And having 150 other Iowa students there made a huge difference. A friend from my home town went along, (you apparently don’t have to be a student to go on the trip,) but we also hung out with the kids in the next condo. It’s nice having a bigger group to ride with and it definitely makes a difference when you’re passing time at night.<\/p>\n Sorry, this is getting so long that I’m<\/em> getting bored, so I won’t bother concluding it.<\/p>\n END<\/p>\n -DN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love to snowboard. I’ve been out west several times, but its always so expensive that I can’t go very often, stay very long, or convince very many people to go with. Fortunately, the University of Iowa has a Ski and Snowboard Club to help make things more fun and less expensive. I went on … Continue reading Snowboarding<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/dillan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/dillan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/dillan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/dillan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/dillan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/dillan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/dillan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/dillan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/dillan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/dillan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}