Day 20: Paydirt!
(Still photos by Bobby Danger)
I've stared at Calf Rope since the Christmas Day storm waiting for the access gates to the lower half of Supreme Bowl to open. Waiting...and waiting...and waiting...
Today, diligence paid off. First to open was the lowermost gate into White Squaw, which we hit untracked.
We then managed to time it perfectly, arriving at the top of Supreme right as patrol opened the Challenger gate. We sped through and found Calf Rope still untouched.
Creamy, dense and divine. Just what the doctor ordered. And it's on film at 2:03:
[skitube2]http://www.firsttracksonline.com/modules/crpVideo/pnmedia/videos/1230511180_2008-12-28_Alta.flv[/skitube2]
This flick was a fun one to make tonight. At 0:37 witness Salida skiing the easternmost chute in White Squaw on old Rossi 4S skinny sticks. Why? "Dude! I'm getting so deep!" :roll: :lol: Bobby's dropping into White Squaw at 2:19 - he was being tentative because there was no telling if it was 2" of fresh snow atop jagged granite cliffage at that point. I followed, but he had already shown me where the rocks were and was able to hit it with a bit more confidence as a result. The lower section of White Squaw is seen in the video at 1:57 .
A good 15 degrees warmer today, it felt like a veritable heat wave! The sun even peeked through the clouds from time to time.
Visitors this week will get more chances for untracked as Backside still isn't open -- they're obviously letting things settle in more given the facet layer underneath.
I left after lunch at around 1 pm. I'd gotten what I went up there for, and after skiing so many days through the holidays I was fairly well shot.
(Still photos by Bobby Danger)
I've stared at Calf Rope since the Christmas Day storm waiting for the access gates to the lower half of Supreme Bowl to open. Waiting...and waiting...and waiting...
Today, diligence paid off. First to open was the lowermost gate into White Squaw, which we hit untracked.
We then managed to time it perfectly, arriving at the top of Supreme right as patrol opened the Challenger gate. We sped through and found Calf Rope still untouched.
Creamy, dense and divine. Just what the doctor ordered. And it's on film at 2:03:
[skitube2]http://www.firsttracksonline.com/modules/crpVideo/pnmedia/videos/1230511180_2008-12-28_Alta.flv[/skitube2]
This flick was a fun one to make tonight. At 0:37 witness Salida skiing the easternmost chute in White Squaw on old Rossi 4S skinny sticks. Why? "Dude! I'm getting so deep!" :roll: :lol: Bobby's dropping into White Squaw at 2:19 - he was being tentative because there was no telling if it was 2" of fresh snow atop jagged granite cliffage at that point. I followed, but he had already shown me where the rocks were and was able to hit it with a bit more confidence as a result. The lower section of White Squaw is seen in the video at 1:57 .
A good 15 degrees warmer today, it felt like a veritable heat wave! The sun even peeked through the clouds from time to time.
Visitors this week will get more chances for untracked as Backside still isn't open -- they're obviously letting things settle in more given the facet layer underneath.
I left after lunch at around 1 pm. I'd gotten what I went up there for, and after skiing so many days through the holidays I was fairly well shot.
It's a heluva lot of fun to do, actually. I also enjoy putting it together into one feature-length movie during the summer to share with members of the posse (that's how "Winter of Wonder" came about). At least this year I'm saving a version of each individual film without titles before adding the titles, so that this year's full-length movie won't feel like a collection of short films.
