Day 63: Around the World
Today's easy to recount, as it involves only 2 lift rides and 1.5 runs.
As I was driving up the Bypass Road looking for a parking spot a snowball flew across the hood of my truck like a warning shot fired across the bow. It was Bobby Danger on Whodunit, with Skidog following shortly behind. I booted up quickly and joined them at the Peruvian Chair.
We were heading for Alta. Up Peruvian, through the Tunnel and down to Mineral Basin Express. Bob and Skidog wandered left out of the tunnel to the chunky goodness of lower Chamonix I - I opted instead for the softness of the groomer.
Up on the Peruvian Ridgeline we ran into Heather, and the four of us struck out for Alta, traversing the Chamonix Chutes until we ran out of steam, then bootpacking up to Sugarloaf Pass (of course, Matt had skins that would fit my Goliaths...down in his car :roll: ).
We clicked back into our bindings at the top of Baldy Express and glided down the Germ Return to the top of Collins at Germania Pass, pausing to admire the view and snap some pictures before heading off into the trees on the west-facing aspects between Mambo and Main Street -- smooth as a baby's ass with only the top half inch shaveable. Damned near perfect!
We traversed across almost ridiculous slide debris in Tombstone, stepped out of our skis again and hiked up to the top of the Wildcat lift, where several patrollers were busy spooling up the ropeline separating Snowbird and Alta along the ridgeline. Pausing again for a moment as the weather began to close in ahead of the next storm we then pushed off, dropping down Punch Bowl (a bit punchy -- the pun fully intended -- with its eastern exposure) and through the gate into Wildcat proper, finding delightful almost-corn on the north-facing aspects. We finished by dropping the entire length of Bridge Shot as snow began to fall, and walked through the parking lot of The View to ski the rest of the way down to the truck.
A great run! Tomorrow could be a Memorial Day powder day if the forecast holds true.
Today's easy to recount, as it involves only 2 lift rides and 1.5 runs.
As I was driving up the Bypass Road looking for a parking spot a snowball flew across the hood of my truck like a warning shot fired across the bow. It was Bobby Danger on Whodunit, with Skidog following shortly behind. I booted up quickly and joined them at the Peruvian Chair.
We were heading for Alta. Up Peruvian, through the Tunnel and down to Mineral Basin Express. Bob and Skidog wandered left out of the tunnel to the chunky goodness of lower Chamonix I - I opted instead for the softness of the groomer.
Up on the Peruvian Ridgeline we ran into Heather, and the four of us struck out for Alta, traversing the Chamonix Chutes until we ran out of steam, then bootpacking up to Sugarloaf Pass (of course, Matt had skins that would fit my Goliaths...down in his car :roll: ).
We clicked back into our bindings at the top of Baldy Express and glided down the Germ Return to the top of Collins at Germania Pass, pausing to admire the view and snap some pictures before heading off into the trees on the west-facing aspects between Mambo and Main Street -- smooth as a baby's ass with only the top half inch shaveable. Damned near perfect!
We traversed across almost ridiculous slide debris in Tombstone, stepped out of our skis again and hiked up to the top of the Wildcat lift, where several patrollers were busy spooling up the ropeline separating Snowbird and Alta along the ridgeline. Pausing again for a moment as the weather began to close in ahead of the next storm we then pushed off, dropping down Punch Bowl (a bit punchy -- the pun fully intended -- with its eastern exposure) and through the gate into Wildcat proper, finding delightful almost-corn on the north-facing aspects. We finished by dropping the entire length of Bridge Shot as snow began to fall, and walked through the parking lot of The View to ski the rest of the way down to the truck.
A great run! Tomorrow could be a Memorial Day powder day if the forecast holds true.
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Nice to see you're still hitting it.. but what's this about you choosing to go down a groomer? :shock: 
