With daytime highs hitting the 70s and next to no snow in Denver metro, it is hard to think of winter, but DUPB has taken care of that problem.

Last weekend, the annual Winter Carnival, which was capped off with a weekend in Winter Park that was full of skiing, skating, sleigh rides, tubing and a free lunch, not to mention a weekend with friends in a condo in the mountains.

“It was nice powder with good snow and the mountain was not too crowded,” said Kevin Friduss, former DUPB concert co-director and the DUPB representative at the tubing event this past weekend.

According to Friduss there were no problems with parties and not much damage was done to the condos. No one was kicked out of a condo this year, said Friduss.

The biggest problem that Friduss saw was on the tubing hill when one student was about to crash into another student, but jumped out of the tube before the collision. The student walked away with minor injuries after sliding on the snow.

About 150 students participated in the weekend, a number that is pretty consistent with previous years, said Andy Loiser, DUPB public relations person. But the turnout was higher for other events such as the talent show last Wednesday.

“There was a great turnout at the talent show,” said Loiser. “It was a great success.”

While many of the events are designed around a winter theme, some are just to get students involved. The chili cook-off can warm you up on a cold day and skating obviously falls into a winter theme, but winter carnival for many really gets started when you get up to the mountains.

Busses left on Friday and came back on Sunday giving students the ability ski all day Saturday and Sunday if they wished, but almost all of the events happening on the Saturday.

“It’s great,” said Loiser when he arrived at Winter park Friday morning to begin his day of skiing before others arrived. “It’s snowing and I wasn’t expecting it to be too good, but it is.”

Last Saturday, in addition to discounted lift tickets for students attending Winter Carnival, ice skating and the sled hill were available to students not wishing to ski.

“Its a nice day to be up here and its not too crowded,” said Loiser.

Programming for next year will probably begin within the next month, according to Friduss, as there will be a push to let more freshmen know about the event to further boost numbers.