Day 59: Happy Easter!
I awoke to find this on my couch this morning, out cold:
Bobby Danger, AmyZ and I were joined this morning by AndreB, founder of the now nearly infamous corn snow thread, and his wife Julie visiting from Buffalo. It was a gorgeous, cloudless Easter morning and warming fast.
Following a few warm-up cruisers it seemed that Backside might be ready, so on our fourth run we cruised over to Germania Pass to pick up Telejon for a hike up to High Notch. Bobby Danger was on his own agenda and opted to hike Baldy to go check out Little Chute. He took my camera along.
A big thank you to ASP. When we saw the gate to High Notch closed I inquired of a passing patroller, who went into the Germania patrol shack to inquire himself before re-emerging and graciously opening the gate for us. As far as snow quality goes, this was the run of the day, at least as far down as the Instructor's Traverse. High Notch proper held amazingly deep, soft, dry untracked and loosely tracked snow. Big smiles all around.
AndreB rejoined Julie for a few cruisers to conserve energy for the afternoon. AmyZ, Telejon and I went into Baldy Brews for a latté and we were rejoined by Bobby Danger who had glowing reports from Little Chute. That cemented it: we were hiking Baldy after lunch.
We lingered around the summit of Baldy for a while to take in the views and enjoy a gorgeous spring day before heading over to Main Chute.
The snow in the chute was firm, but very winter-like. Soft chalk would shave off with every turn but you really, really didn't want to biff as self-arresting would've been a challenge, at best.
Waiting for us on the apron down below were Skidog, Marc_C, and Marc's friends Mike and Jean. The latter three had done Main themselves a bit earlier in the day.
By now it was 3:00, and time to head home to get ready for Easter dinner, and I now need to get back to the preparations. Hope everyone's had a joyous holiday today.
And nice meeting you today, AndreB and Julie. Hope that you enjoyed the locals tour!
I awoke to find this on my couch this morning, out cold:
Bobby Danger, AmyZ and I were joined this morning by AndreB, founder of the now nearly infamous corn snow thread, and his wife Julie visiting from Buffalo. It was a gorgeous, cloudless Easter morning and warming fast.
Following a few warm-up cruisers it seemed that Backside might be ready, so on our fourth run we cruised over to Germania Pass to pick up Telejon for a hike up to High Notch. Bobby Danger was on his own agenda and opted to hike Baldy to go check out Little Chute. He took my camera along.
A big thank you to ASP. When we saw the gate to High Notch closed I inquired of a passing patroller, who went into the Germania patrol shack to inquire himself before re-emerging and graciously opening the gate for us. As far as snow quality goes, this was the run of the day, at least as far down as the Instructor's Traverse. High Notch proper held amazingly deep, soft, dry untracked and loosely tracked snow. Big smiles all around.
AndreB rejoined Julie for a few cruisers to conserve energy for the afternoon. AmyZ, Telejon and I went into Baldy Brews for a latté and we were rejoined by Bobby Danger who had glowing reports from Little Chute. That cemented it: we were hiking Baldy after lunch.
We lingered around the summit of Baldy for a while to take in the views and enjoy a gorgeous spring day before heading over to Main Chute.
The snow in the chute was firm, but very winter-like. Soft chalk would shave off with every turn but you really, really didn't want to biff as self-arresting would've been a challenge, at best.
Waiting for us on the apron down below were Skidog, Marc_C, and Marc's friends Mike and Jean. The latter three had done Main themselves a bit earlier in the day.
By now it was 3:00, and time to head home to get ready for Easter dinner, and I now need to get back to the preparations. Hope everyone's had a joyous holiday today.
And nice meeting you today, AndreB and Julie. Hope that you enjoyed the locals tour!
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