Fit-Pic: Epic Easter at Keystone's Closing Day

A picture is supposed to be worth 1,000 words, right? This image might not be the picture-perfect detail of fit living--sugary sweet Peeps make an Easter appearance, and every last one in the package was consumed before the day's end--but it comes close. Kind of, if you count the day it represents and not the picture itself.

Skiing, skiing and more skiing. All at Keystone Resort to close out its 2011-2012 season. Skiing was my exercise on Easter Sunday, an all-day adventure where those Easter sweets were erased with each vertical foot logged through EpicMix, the app developed by Vail Resorts that tracks your skiing accomplishments and puts a social media spin to them. As of the start of this ski season, the app goes one step further, adding photos to the experience that can be purchased or shared via email, Facebook and Twitter. And this photo was my first. So what if it took until the last day to get it?

You Know You're a Skier When...

Skiing Vail's bowls in 2010.

I know that I like a lot of sports--and that I like to participate in a lot of sports. But there's no doubting the fact that I am a skier. I married a skier. I haven't gone a single season since 1992, if not 1987 when I was out with a broken leg (thanks to sledding into a fence), without skiing. And right now I'm trying to make myself feel better about the fact that it dumped in ski country and I can't be there to partake in it. So I'm thinking skiing, and what can maybe make some of us skiers.

You know you're a skier when...

• Your Twitter feed is literally a string of posts about white-outs, snow conditions and powder days to be had. 
• Your Facebook news contains picture upon picture of powdery action shots or snow-covered mountains.

Score a Skiing Season Pass Before It's Too Late

I like to ski...a lot. I also like to save money though that's more because my sporty pursuits can put a real dent in the wallet...and on the credit card...and in the savings account. Well, not exactly. It's really so I can ski again, and again, and again. And when you live 1,000 miles from a ski destination, it's those other costs--flight, transportation, eating out, and lodging--that start to add up. Sound familiar?

Maybe you've debated over where you want to spend your winter skiing--and how long and when. Maybe you've tried to talk yourself out of the need for a season pass. Maybe you've been trying to tack on more ski days to your upcoming schedule to justify the need for a season pass. Maybe you've been saving your pennies waiting until the last possible second to pull the trigger on buying your season pass. But you know you want one, and you know you can't go a season without skiing, and you know you can't, or shouldn't, spend top dollar to make those turns in your favorite powder stashes (that's me). Whatever your excuse is for not currently having an Epic Pass in your arsenal for the 2011-2012 season, aside from living closer to another mountain in say Montana or Wyoming or Utah, your time is about to expire.

The deadline to purchase one of the five Epic Pass options to ski seven resorts in Colorado and around Lake Tahoe--Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Heavenly, Keystone, Northstar, Vail, and Arapahoe Basin (not owned by Vail Resorts but still just as awesome to have in the mix)--is today, November 29. And if you don't decide by midnight tonight, you're truly SOL because that means you have to buy lift tickets per time, which can add up if you plan to ski more than seven days at one or all seven of these mountains. Ouch.