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Cord Is King
Not always, but sometimes, nothing is more enjoyable than ripping perfect, clean, untouched corduroy. Like at 9am on the same day that you’re flying out at 1pm. Gotta get those last few runs in, who knows when the next ones will be (especially given the recent weather on the East Coast).
Pretty fine looking…
Pops enjoying the surprisingly soft cord. With the warm temps and bright sun, it was pretty ripe by 9:30 am.
On days like these, cord really is king.
A Quiet Ride
Ahh, it’s so nice to be back out west – a slower, more mellow pace of life, and much, much larger mountains 
Anyways, here’s a quick shot of my father taking a quiet ride up through the snow on the new Marmot lift.
I look forward to the rest of my time out here. Hopefully it will dump, but even some fun spring corn days would be nice!
Back To The Top
Krysta was off for today, Valentine’s day, so we decided to spend the day skiing up at Stowe (really the only game in town, alas). Of course.
I mean, that’s what normal couples do on Valentine’s day, right?
We spent most of the day lapping around the in-bounds terrain, but towards the end of the day we decided to take a hike to see if we could get into any remaining snow that had fallen a few days prior.
Krysta beginning the hike up towards the summit of Mt Mansfield.
And working her way through one of the steepest parts of the bootpack.
The weather provided us an intense scene looking south along the Mansfield ridge.
Krysta on the final approach to the summit. Not having been up to the top yet this winter, we just had to hit the summit.
Me and my Worths (ok, these aren’t technically mine, they’re the Humpback demos… I personally own a pair of Georges, but the Humpbacks were a bit more fitting for the skiing today) on top of the world… Or at least Vermont .
There was lots of cool sastrugi on the ridge.
After dawdling around a bit, it was time to begin the descent. Maybe we could still make a dinner date, like the normal folks.
Krysta took the first turns, heading into the shadows.
Deciding to take a slightly more roundabout route on the way down, I managed to find my way into a little bit of fresh snow here and there. Man, I love those pink bases!
Unfortunately, the good snow was a bit too short lived and the rest of the way down became more and more of a sufferfest. With a combination of not enough snow, too many skiers having passed through before us, and woods that were just a bit too tight, the going was rough. But we were committed, and so it goes…
We did eventually make it out, but never made it to that dinner date (it took a bit longer than we expected to get out)… Oh well, I’m glad to have spent the day with Krysta doing something a little bit more interesting than most folks out there .
Gettin Rowdy
On a busy saturday in the middle of (what is supposed to be) winter, I’d normally find myself somewhere deep in the woods on a skin track, but alas, it just hasn’t been that kind of year. Plus, this saturday, I was supposed to meet up with my new buddy Aaron, who was demoing the Worth Humpbacks. So I had to be there to get some “in-action” shots, of course .
When I showed up in the morning, the mountain was surprisingly calm. But even more important, the Notch was looking good! The Smuggs side was socked in, and the clouds were slowly spilling over the mountains.
Not a bad scene to start your day out. (As always, click to enlarge the panorama).
When I met up with Aaron and his buddy Dave, we took a hike looking for adventure.
And with the snow stake at a measly 48″ (it’s been a rough year on the east coast), adventure is what we got. I’m not sure I’d recommend anyone to go back into this zone with this little snow, but hey, it was… interesting, nonetheless.
Dave getting ready to drop into some of the… interesting terrain we found ourselves in.
After this, the skiing got rather rowdy and sketchy (again, there probably wasn’t enough snow in this zone). I didn’t pull the camera out too many times, but here’s a few shots I managed to grab along the way.
Aaron after coming through a small mandatory air and around an icefall.
And popping through the trees. I guess he’s having fun on those Humpbacks. :)
Through all of our travail, we did manage to find a few small powder stashes remaining around the mountain. For the most part though, everything had been skied out pretty thoroughly since the last “storm.” Still, the adventure is always good and I’m glad we checked out that zone. But the rest of our day was spent skiing much more mellow terrain.
The clouds hung around through the end of the day, still just as cool as they were in the morning.
Well, that was quite the adventure for the day… Whew! I’m glad we got out and check it out though, you’ll never know until ya go!
Fun In The Sun
I headed up to Stowe today with Krysta and met up with my buddy Josh to have some fun in the sun. With a warm day on tap and not a cloud in the sky, we felt fairly confident that we could find some softer snow to ski, and poking around a bit, we did. Some things on the Spruce side were actually corning up quite nicely. I’d rather not be skiing corn in the middle of February, but hey, this has been an odd (there are a lot of other, potentially better words that one could use here) season. I’ll take what I can get.
Here’s one quick shot from the day of Josh ripping with the Worth Humpbacks.
Surprise Pow Day!
After this past week’s “few” inch storm turned into nearly a foot, I knew I wasn’t going to miss another “few” inch storm. Last night, forecasts were calling for a measly couple of inches. But I had a good feeling about this one, and I decided that I wasn’t going to miss it.
So I dragged myself out of bed at an ungodly early hour (especially for a saturday). When I loaded up the snow report, I was instantly disappointed: Stowe was reporting only 2-4 inches. What. The. Hell! Guess I was wrong, but I was already awake and ready to ski, so I set off. With 2-4 inches, I was fairly confident that I could find some soft in a few selects spots before the hordes showed up later in the day.
When I got to Stowe, I jetted off for a lap off the 4Runner, planning on skiing a fairly mellow groomer lap before heading up the gondy. This was in fact my first run ever on my brand new Worth Georges (Worth Skis, for those of you who don’t know, is a small semi-custom ski company I’m starting up with a few friends. Check out our website for more info) and my new AT boots, the Tecnica Cochise. Cruising past some untouched woods off of Nosedive, I just couldn’t help myself and jumped right on into the fray. 2-4 inches my ass! There was at least 8-10 in the woods, with much more in a few select spots! I guess my hunch paid off!
After that exhilarating run, I took off for the gondy, and being one of the first ones up there, I quickly set off for a relatively well known side country area.
As I passed a few snowboarders struggling on the traverse, I worked myself into position to get first tracks. To say that I was pleased finding this scene would be an understatement!
I kept on lapping that same zone basically all day long and continued to find fresh snow for my Georges to devour. Man, those skis are so much fun!
Around 11:30 or so:
Around 1:30 or so, still fresh and untouched 
At the end of the day, I hooked up with with my buddy Josh and we took a few laps, where yet again, we found more fresh.
After a long day of teaching, Josh was pretty stoked to still be skiing fresh (especially on a crowded saturday!).
Wow. Just WOW! It’s not often that you get to ski fresh all day, let alone on a saturday at Stowe. This added with the joy of skiing my new Worth Georges and today was just a real treat!
Back To Stowe
It’s been a long time since I’ve been up at Stowe, and since then, thankfully, conditions have improved greatly (the last time I was here was in mid December, when there were effectively 3 trails open). I spent the day up there today with Krysta ripping around through the woods and on the groom, and the skiing today was great! It was snowing all day long, and with the surprise ~9″ that fell yesterday, the mountain was skiing quite well. Lots of the higher elevation woods are in play and skiing great, especially if you can find the spots that haven’t been skied out yet. As you get lower down, some of the woods are definitely showing signs of the meager winter that we’ve had this year in New England, and could easily use a foot or four to fill in some of the schwack. Even all the groomed trails that we skied were quite enjoyable today, especially with the snow kept falling through the day replenishing the runs a bit.
At the end of the day, we met up with my buddy Josh and took a lap deep into the sidecountry. The top half skied excellently, with lots of deep and untracked snow. As we got lower down, things were a bit more tracked out (and therefore more icy with a stiff crust underneath), and the woods needed a bit more coverage (it was schwacky!), but overall the skiing out there was awesome!
Josh enjoying some day old pow!
Being a day late isn’t always a bad thing .
Krysta proving a little schwack can’t hurt that bad.
Tearing it up.
Josh getting deep!
She sure loves pow.
Sometimes I get a little bit narrow minded (thanks to Josh for the following photos of myself!).
But really, it’s hard to think straight when you’ve got pow on your mind.
Yehaw! What a day. Now hopefully the weather cooperates through the next 36 or or hours, because I’ve missed zipping through tight eastern trees quite a bit .
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!!
Finally!!
Woohoo! It’s finally snowing here in Jackson, and boy oh boy, it’s looking to be a doozie of a storm! Predictions are calling for this storm cycle to drop somewhere in the range of 55 inches by saturday!
Between with the cold weather (~5°), howling winds (40mph with 75+mph gusts) and knowing this storm was going to last a few days, we had a late start, but by the time we were up on the hill, things were already lookin’ good.
This shot underneath the expert chutes was so good on my first go around, we just had to do it again. Here’s my father going through some deep and light Teton pow.
And good enough to go even one more time! I like gettin’ deep
There was a lot of snow flying around – it made for a good ice beard.
Later on, we skied through some nicely wind buffed powder in an all too obvious spot . Maybe not as deep here, but man it skied just wonderfully!
As the day went on, the skiing only got better. Here’s my father coming down through some more deep snow.
Likewise, I enjoy the deep snow (and my Gotamas)!
Yehaw!
What a fun day today was! I can’t wait for tomorrow, especially since the snow is only supposed to fall harder and harder through tonight and tomorrow! Yehaw, here we go!
At Least It’s Nice Out
Although the snow isn’t falling yet, it was another beautiful day to be outside and skiing here in Jackson. And if it’s not going to snow, I’d just as soon have sunny and cold days like today has been (of course, I’d really prefer if it was dumping snow at three inches an hour, but…).
I don’t have too much else to say, so here’s a nice shot of my brother kicking up a nice cloud of snow high above the valley floor in the late afternoon.
Cruising
Conditions here in Jackson continue to be marginal, and some snow (ok, lots of snow) would be sweet, but we’re making do with what we’ve got. Here’s a quick shot of my brother cruising down Grand in some beautifully soft late day light.
A Moody Afternoon
Here’s a quick shot of the mountains just south of the resort here at Jackson, with some seriously moody clouds rolling about in the afternoon. We haven’t seen any snow yet out here, so conditions continue to be, as we like to say in the east, “firm, but edgable.”
Pray for snow!!
“Firm, But Edgable”
Well, I’m back out west for a while, and much like the east right now, the skiing’s been nothing to write home about. Ripping groomers is fun, but I’m not sure it will remain fun for the next two and a half weeks…
Here’s a quick one of my brother, Marc, ripping the groom.
Do your snow dances and pray for snow!!
One Last Run
I got out this evening for a sunset skin with Dalton at the Snowbowl. Don’t got too much else to add to this one, so I’ll let the pic speak for its self.
Good Friday Indeed
With this afternoon looking like the only good weather of the weekend, I decided to skip the free beer and food offered by the CS dept here at Dartmouth and head out for some corn harvesting at the Snowbowl with Krysta. When we showed up to the Snowbowl around 3:20, it was right around 50° and simply beautiful out – quite a change to much of the recent weather in VT, and a stark contrast to my last day out skiing on Mt. Washington. Additionally, the coverage up at the Snowbowl is still incredible. Aside from a few spots, there’s still snow from wall-to-wall.
As we were suiting up, we saw my buddy Jeff, along with his wife Holly, ripping down the Allen. They confirmed that, as I had thought, it was good out there. Really good. Like absolute perfect peel-away corn good . After chatting a bit, we headed up to enjoy the sample the corn for ourselves. After switching over, we skied the headwall of the Allen. And my god, it was just as good as Jeff and Holly told us!
Krysta enjoying the corn on the top of the Allen.
It was spectacular.
What a day!
The corn was highly ripable, as Krysta shows us here.
After skiing the headwall of the Allen, we realized that our time was unfortunately short (especially given how good the skiing was). Too short to take another lap. However, we did have time to skin back to the top and ski the headwall of the Allen again. So we changed over and headed back up for a bit more skiing.
Ready to head back up again and extremely pleased to be doing such fine skiing in late April.
I too like to ski corn (pics of me obviously by Krysta).
This was just so much fun.
Spraying up all the corn.
And ripping fast, right to Krysta’s tracks from the previous run.
After this, we skied it out, and fast – the corn was truly ripable. It would have been nice to have stayed longer, but alas real life calls at times. Luckily, it doesn’t call too often and allows me to get out on days like this!
Pea Soup
With today being the only weather window in a upcoming forecast, I decided it was finally time to check out Mt Washington. I hooked up with Dalton, and after a last minute call based on the weather, we headed to the wild west side.
When I arrived in the parking lot at 9, it was 33° and drizzling, with some really low hanging clouds. Not exactly inspiring conditions, to say the least. By the time Dalton had showed up, the drizzle had stopped and it had gotten a bit warmer, however, the clouds were still holding steady. With the forecast called for clearing skies in the later morning and not wanting to ski steep, bullet-proof ravines, we decided to wait out the weather, hoping the clouds would clear soon.
After about 3 hours and some interesting adventures involving jumper cables, Dalton had the great idea of checking out the Mt Washington Observatory’s summit cams. What we saw astounded us – it was completely blue on the summit, with clouds just lingering on the west side. With that news, we geared up and headed up, on the assumption that it was now only a matter of time until the clouds would clear.
The clouds were in and out as we started on our way up. You can almost see the upper parts of the mountain just trying to peek through the clouds.
We even got a little bit of sunshine at the beginning of the climb!
Unfortunately, that only seemed to be temporary. We continued upward and soon enough, we were reaching the ominous cloud layer.
And heading up into it.
By the time we made it to Jacob’s Ladder, we were in the thick of it, and the clouds showed no signs of clearing. None at all.
So we decided to take a break. Dalton checked out the weather situation on top of the mountain, and like we suspected, it wasn’t looking good – the west side was completely socked in, even up to the summit.
Looking into the Ammo.
And up Jacob’s Ladder. The fog was thick.
At this point, we decided the best call was to simply head back downhill from here.
Bo was super stoked to get skiing!
He can be a mellow too… Although not for any longer than 4 seconds.
Dalton beginning the descent into the grey-room, with Bo in hot pursuit.
Yup, kind of like skiing in pea soup.
Although this isn’t what I had expected out of my first trip to Mt Washington, it was still an enjoyable ski down the ~2500ft that we’d earned.
I guess you can’t always hit it right, but given how many times this year we’ve managed to hit it right, I’m not complaining. Today was still a great outing, and now I really can’t wait to get back up to Mt Washington. Hopefully the weather cooperates sometime soon, although I have a feeling that the snow will be hanging around a while this year.
Bluebird Corn Laps
Here’s a quick shot from today.. I met up with Dalton and we hauled up the skin track (~1000ft gained in 16-18min) for two quick runs at the Snow Bowl. Even though it was full on spring conditions out there, it sure doesn’t seem like winter’s giving up any time soon. I’m simply amazed just how deep the snow pack is out there.
Looks like tomorrow should be another great day, so get out there and enjoy it!!
An Undercast Morning
We woke up this morning to find 6 inches of fresh snow had fallen on the upper mountain, however the valley was totally socked in. It was not an especially inviting day to get out, even though we were pretty sure it was just an undercast, with most of the upper mountain (hopefully) languishing in sunshine. When we did finally make it out, we found that even though the valley was totally socked in, there was another cloud layer hanging somewhere above us. Bluebird would have been nice, but oh well, I guess it just means more snow soon!
My mom skiing high above the clouds.
Yup, the valley really was filled in.
At the end of the day, my mom found this little guy. We’re speculating that he’s a pocket gopher. What he was doing on top of the snow, we may never know.
And yes, Krysta just had to go and pick him up.
We left this little guy next to a tree and out of the (dangerous) way of skiers, so hopefully he can make it back to his home. And with the snow picking up at the end of the day, I’m really hoping for another big powder day tomorrow. I guess only time will tell, so we’ll have to keep those fingers crossed.
17″ for the 17th – Happy St. Patty’s Day!!
Well, it’s that time of year again for me – I’m finally out west, back in Jackson!! The east has been nothing short of spectacular for me this season, but Jackson holds a special place in my heart, and I’m always stoked to get back out here. Especially this year, with all the snow they’ve been getting.
After an exhausting day of travel on tuesday, I had my first ski day out here yesterday (wednesday). The conditions started off somewhat more icy than I was hoping for and visibility was tough as the mountain was sitting in the clouds. However, the snowpack has been very deep this year, with around 450″ of snow having already fallen on the mountain. Way way way deeper than last year’s snowpack. In any event, as the day went on, the conditions were looking better and better – not being able to see does have the advantage, at least in this case, that it was snowing, and quite heavily at times! Towards the end of the day, with the snow falling and the winds blowing, we were able to find some great conditions despite the very mediocre start we’d had that day.
With the snow showing no signs of stopping, I already knew that tomorrow was going to be a good day to get out early as I made my way off the mountain at the end of the day.
We woke up to find the mountain had gotten a total of 17″, a perfect amount for St. Patty’s day, the 17th of March (ok, more would have been better, but we can’t be too greedy)! We got a quick start on the day and headed out in search of powder – I couldn’t think of a better way to start out a trip out west . We searched out our usual spots on the mountain, the they delivered the goods:
My father enjoying the 17 inches of goodness.
I guess it’s kind of ok…
And the snow was so light too! Certainly not blower, but still very very nice.
As the day went on, the St. Patty’s Pow Day crowds hit the pow pretty good and everything was getting quite skied out. Additionally, the sun came out, burning off the few lingering clouds from the morning. This quickly started turning the remaining untouched snow into glop, but before it got too bad I found a few nice turns above the Cirque (photos by my father).
Deep is good.
Deeper is gooder.
17″, oh man, what a great way to start out my annual Jackson trip. Hopefully it keeps snowing as the forecast seems to suggest! Happy St. Patty’s day!!
Bluebird Day!
Just a quick shot from Stowe today. Conditions are still pretty rough out there, with the base being pretty solid after the ~60° day last friday (well, it hit 60° here in Norwich, hopefully it wasn’t actually that warm in the mountains). My only venture into the woods yielded highly variable conditions – some turns were fun, some were just plain old scary. All that being said, I had a blast skiing fast on the groomers today at Stowe. Here’s a quick late-day shot of the chin and the notch on this amazing, bluebird day. Truly, I didn’t see a single cloud for the entire day!
Yet Another Awesome Day On The Spine!
I headed out with Krysta for another day of amazing touring along the spine of the Greens. We had a few beautiful laps, with perfect powder, as we further explored one of my favorite new zones this year. We found some new open areas and some amazing pillows along with the amazing snow. There’s not too much else to say about the day, so I’ll let the photos do the talking from here on out.
Krysta zig-zagging her way up the mountain.
And reaping the benefits of earning your turns.
I greatly enjoy earning my turns as well, especially when the skiing’s like this!
There were a lot of fun pillows.
We had gotten pretty cold at the top of our first lap, so we didn’t stop too much for photos the first time around. After the first amazing lap, we switched over and began trekking back up hill, this time to a slightly different spot.
Krysta liked what she saw.
And shredded the gnar! (Ok, so maybe it’s not the most gnar terrain, but the snow was amazing!)
Lower down, I skied by an old, sleepy boulder. I think he approved of my line. (Don’t see it?)
Continuing downhill, we stumbled upon a happy bowl full of pillows. Although this is only the very edge of it, the entire area is just filled will pillows. I’m not sure why I didn’t take any photos of it (maybe I was just too awestruck?), but it was an amazing zone.
When I saw this scene, one specific line just called out to me – I had to ski it!
And so, I did!
Slayed!
All in all, this was yet another simply amazing day VT backcountry!
Sunny Day Touring The Spine
As it’s the weekend of winter carnival, we here at Dartmouth get the day off! Woohoo! So clearly, it’s another ski day And with bright blue skies and powder in the hills, it couldn’t be a better day!
I met up with my buddy Dalton and his wife, Nay, and we were joined by his buddy Ben. Having collected everyone, we headed off in search of pow!
Dalton (and Bo, in the background) earning their turns.
And man, oh man, they were some great turns!
Ben clearly was enjoying it as well.
Me too! (photo by Dalton)
After one lap, we decided to head off to another area that I’d been wanting to explore for quite some time.
After a short skin, we found this amazing looking zone. Although not our main objective, it looked too good to pass up.
Bo knew what was up.
Ben having some fun. (photo by Dalton)
And I’ll say, pillows are great fun! (photos by Dalton)
After that quick round of mini-golf, we continued uphill for a while longer. We made our way into the pines, and since it was getting late, decided to turn around up there. Skiing down, we worked our way in and out of the labyrinthine pine lanes, finding openings here and there, hootin’ and hollering the entire time. The snow was great up there, so much so in fact that we couldn’t be bothered to stop for pictures.
Much lower down we finally stopped for a few shots. Here’s Dalton enjoying the pow, right after having been taken out by Bo.
And Ben.
We found another fun zone with a bunch of sweet pillows. Although the pictures don’t do it justice, here’s Ben hitting a 4-pillow line.
I dropped this small waterfall. (photo by Dalton)
And finally, I hit this little drop near the bottom of our run. (photo by Dalton)
After we got back to the car, we ended out our awesome day with an awesome beer at the Bobcat Cafe. AWESOME!
Long Sloggin’ In The NEK
Having heard the pitter-patter overnight of rain on my roof and hearing other accounts of sleet/rain a lot further north along the spine than it should have been, Krysta and myself changed our original plans of skiing on the spine, as we didn’t want to ski crusty snow. After some back and forth on my behalf, we decided to head north to an area that I had yet to explore for another day of touring. And so, we headed up into the NEK, and without realizing what we were getting ourselves into, embarked on a rather lengthy slog.
It was nice to find mostly good snow up there, however the going was slow as we were breaking trail. Additionally, the first 1-1.5miles were rather flat.
Krysta was in good spirits once we finally started to gain elevation. The hardwood hillside in the background was the target for the day.
Up and up we continued.
Before we realized it, we had reached the summit. We took a short break and ate some food in the shelter up there.
We then climbed up the firetower hoping to get an idea of how we could make it through the thick pines and into the hardwoods. Unfortunately, we didn’t see much.
Or really anything, for that matter.
Since it was somewhat late in the day, and we were both tired, we decided not to take the risk of venturing into the pines in order to find the hardwood hillside. So we skied down the same trail we came up. The skiing was pretty good, all things considered.
Krysta opening it up in a wider spot.
We continued downwards and at a certain point decided to head into the woods, off the trail. Unfortunately, this ended up being too low angle so we simply decided to skin our way out. After a short uphill stretch, we were free to coast downhill (if only slightly) for another 1-1.5miles back to the car.
And once we were finally back at the car, Krysta revealed her true feelings about long slogging.
I wish I had realized just how long of a slog this was and had studied a few maps a bit more before going out. I guess it shows that you should always know where you’re getting into – looking at a satellite view of the region afterwards, it appears that from the summit we could have easily gotten into the hardwoods with not more than 50ft of pine schwacking. It’s frustrating, but you live and learn. And now that I know what’s up in that area, I’m ready to head back… although I somehow doubt that Krysta will be joining me again in there.
A Mellow Touring Day
I met up with my new buddy Josh for a nice day of mellow touring around one of the more popular BC zones in VT. The day started out beautiful, but by the time we were on our second lap the clouds had rolled in to cover up the sky. Although it was no longer bluebird out, the skiing was still great on awesome, soft and surfy powder.
On our way up the first time around. What a beautiful day.
On the first lap we couldn’t really be bothered with taking pictures, and unfortunately by the time I pulled the camera out on the second lap the clouds had rolled in. The snow however, was still superb!
Josh was lovin’ it!
A little lower down we were skiing along some creek beds. These had all sorts of fun little features to pop off of!
I was loving the snow out there. Even though there was more traffic and the snow was more cut up, it was great (photos clearly by Josh).
Yup, it was a fun fun day!
Although the skiing on this tour was maybe a bit more mellow than I had anticipated, it was great to get out and check out this new zone. The snow was fantastic and the skiing along those creek beds was just so much fun!