Last Day Powder Day At JH!

I woke up at 7:15, very reluctantly to hear my alarm going off.  I got up, checked the website and saw that the mountain had reported only 6″ of fresh.  Normally this would be awesome, but with the huge bumps and heavy ice everywhere, I figured that there was no way that it could be enough to cover that sort of nastiness.  I went back to sleep for an hour…

When we finally got out, we found that the snow up high was actually much more than 6″, and even though it was still really rough and crusty in spots below, a lot of places were skiing awesomely!  We even made it up the headwall twice.  It’s been a while, for whatever reason, since I’ve been up there.

Enough words, let’s look at pretty pictures.

Marc coming around a few rocky spots.

Pops liked the fresh stuff too!

And Marc continued to eat it all up.

The weather was nice and there were very few tracks down the headwall so we decided to go up for a short hike to ski it.

Marc’s chilling up top, waiting for the rest.

I needed at least one corny A-frame shot for the winter.  Of course on the day that I forget my violé strap.  Oh well.

The “older folks” can even make the hike.

Marc enjoying the fresh snow.  Conditions were just so much better than they had been for the previous few days…

Pops enjoying the ride down.

And me just the same, rockin my new and bright steeze.  Photos by Marc.

Jim coming through a few small trees.

It was so nice up on the headwall that we decided to take another lap before they closed it.

Myself coming through a steep spot with some nice snow.

As Jim was coming through the steeps, he fell.  Marc was positioned taking photos right below Jim.  Made for an interesting few seconds as it’s quite steep up there.

Luckily Marc scootched out of the way and Jim quickly stopped just a bit lower.

A bit lower down, and I’m loving the powder.  It’s so awesome.

And the money shot of me taken by Marc.

What a great way to end yet another few days skiing the awesome mountain that is Rendezvous Peak.  I already can’t wait to be back next year when hopefully there will be more snow.