And The Snow Keeps Piling Up!

After the great day of skiing we had yesterday, to say that I was pleased to wake up to a foot of fresh and the sound of avalanche bombs reverberating off my windows would be a serious understatement!  On top of all of that, it was still snowing outside, with the snow forecasted to only get heavier as the day went on!

With tons of people out to enjoy the foot-o-fresh and the mountain being a bit slow to open up due to avy hazard reduction work (really can’t blame ‘em there), things got off to a slow start, but once the ball was rolling, the skiing was awesome.  After a quick lap or two at Thunder, we managed to be some of the first through the Cirque, and hot damn, it was awesome!

My father enjoying the goods of the Cirque underneath Snag Tree.

He seemed pretty stoked that we were some of the first ones in there.

Ok, maybe very stoked!

Later in the day, with the snow continuing to pile up, we even tried out some of the lower faces (here we’re on Colter Ridge).   We haven’t skied any of the lower faces yet this trip due to marginal conditions (not enough snow/frozen solid crud).  This time, however, it was decidedly not marginal!

My father was disappearing into the snow on his way down.

It’s hard on days like these to stop and take out the camera, especially with the snow blowing every which way, but we stopped for a few more shots on our last run of the day, another lower face (this time Sublette Ridge).

I dig deep snow!

Such great fun!

Wow!  What a day, and the snow shows no signs of stopping!  It’s about damned time too – I just wish this had happened a week and a half ago when I had just gotten out west, not soon before I’m leaving.  Still, no complaints at all about this kind of snowfall!  We’re looking at another foot or so overnight, so let it snow!!