Ashcroft Ski Touring

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• Anynomous

  05 March 2018

  Great place to rent gear that clearly cares about customer safety and happiness, restaurant had good food as well!

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• Anynomous

  04 March 2018

  f you are ignorant tourists with no mountain experience, rent an AWD SUV and do the sleigh ride. Definitely do not do the cross-country skiing! To get to the Ashcroft ranch you have to drive about 12 miles down an occasionally plowed, snow packed, narrow, mountain road. If you are in a front-wheel drive, economy car and it starts snowing very hard you might get stuck on the road or the ranch parking lot. The Pinebrook restaurant is 1.5 miles from the Ascroft Center where you rent the cross-country skis, snow shoes, take the sleigh ride or just walk to the restaurant. Sounds simple but if you have no experience with cross country skis you won't know how to put them on or take them off let alone turn and stop. No one from the center showed us how to put the skis on or take them off. If they would have done that it would have been helpful but it seemed like they wanted us to take the lesson just for those simple instructions. If we would have known that we could have read/youtubed about how to do the basics of cross country skiing and it would have been hugely valuable. But we still would have been exhausted going 1.5 miles at 9500 ft elevation in 14 degree weather to the restaurant. So after going only 200 ft we turned around and went back to the ranch. The employees were very nice and gave us our money back. Their website and several phone calls didn't paint a realistic picture about how hard cross-country skiing is or how far the restaurant is to let two, ignorant, average physical shape, dumb tourists make an informed decision. We will be going back again someday because it looks like fun and the restaurant sounds great but we will definitely be taking the sleigh ride :).

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• Anynomous

  01 March 2018

  Beautiful area for some cross country skiing or snowshoeing. Very helpful staff for renting gear and some trail guidance.

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• Anynomous

  16 March 2017

  unreal surroundings and great service / advice

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