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So, you guys all know Mike Ferrari, right? Bestest friend from high school, works in DC now, graduated from Bates? Anyway, every February for the past four of five years, Mike and the rest of the Bates crew travel out to Colorado, rendevous in Denver and spend a week at their friend Pete's house in Beaver Creek.

This past year I lobbied pretty hard - making phone calls, sending flowers and candy - and was finally able to get the invite from Sir Pete. As luck would have it, the dates for Beaver Creek lined up perfectly with our trip to the Emerging Technology conference (me = dork) out in San Diego.

I'll save you the flight drama (or will I...), but what is comes down to is I flew in around 11:40 Thursday night, hopped on the CME van to Beaver Creek and made my grand entrance at Beaver Creek around 3am.


The Bates kids had forewarened me about the house - "the wood is from a shaker barn in Pennsylvania!", "it's been in Architectural Digest like 5 times" - and sure enough, as me and the CME van driver were trying to figure out which house it was, I said "it must be one of those up there", pointing at a massive structure up on the hill. "That's one house, pal". he said. Huh.


So, here's the house in daytime. The locals call it the Silo Barn.


From the end of the driveway, where the shuttle picks you up in the morning.

The inside of the house.

And the view from the window.

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:: friday


Okay, so now that that's out of the way. Did we ski on Friday? I forget. I was on just a few hours sleep from the crappy flight over and a week worth of sharing hotel room in San Diego with four guys. Yeah, I think Rob, Steve, Pete, Nate and I ponyed up and went out for the day. Mike Ferrari and Ms. Pam arrived in grand fashion, flying into Eagle (the airport in Vail) that afternoon. Six hours later and the fridge was stocked.

Note: See the red "Beaver Liquors" coolie wrapped around a PBR? Heaven.


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Dens: The next morning, we were introduced to the private locker room for Beaver Creek property owners...


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Dens: ... complete w/ private locker w/ engraved nameplate. Bling bling.


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