Day 12: Powder!
Marc_C's friends Liz and Kerry from back East must be Ullr in disguise, for every time they visit they bring snow. Today was no different.
Unfortunately, we somehow became separated at the very start of the day, and we stood atop Wildcat for a while before determining that they never got on that lift.
So without even making one turn our posse was down to Skidog, Tele Jon, Dale, Pat and yours truly. The rest of the day, however, is one long white blur. First few runs were down through Wildcat trees, bombing through untracked, and Skidog bombing into a deep (~12-foot) hole after somehow not seeing the snow bridge across it. I turned around and could only see the top of his helmet as he struggled to climb out! =D>
We then hit more untracked on Greeley hill before working our way toward Supreme, scheduled to open at 11 for the first time this weekend. That meant that it hadn't been touched since the storm began, and we rollicked on Calf Rope in untracked goodness and went back for more in No. 9 Trees. We broke trail across the flats to ski the trees in more untracked above Challenger Gully, and did it again, finding more untracked in Baby Bear trees.
In short, we pounded hard as light snow continued to fall all morning. Temps were cold, ~1F at the top, so the new snow stayed light and dry. By the time we finally stopped for lunch at Alf's I was whooped, ready to take a nap right on the table. I therefore hit the road by 2:00, heading down canyon as sunshine began to break through. Bumped into Tirolerpeter briefly as I was walking out of Alf's.
No pix, no video ... we were rocking too hard to stop today.
Marc_C's friends Liz and Kerry from back East must be Ullr in disguise, for every time they visit they bring snow. Today was no different.
Unfortunately, we somehow became separated at the very start of the day, and we stood atop Wildcat for a while before determining that they never got on that lift.
So without even making one turn our posse was down to Skidog, Tele Jon, Dale, Pat and yours truly. The rest of the day, however, is one long white blur. First few runs were down through Wildcat trees, bombing through untracked, and Skidog bombing into a deep (~12-foot) hole after somehow not seeing the snow bridge across it. I turned around and could only see the top of his helmet as he struggled to climb out! =D>
We then hit more untracked on Greeley hill before working our way toward Supreme, scheduled to open at 11 for the first time this weekend. That meant that it hadn't been touched since the storm began, and we rollicked on Calf Rope in untracked goodness and went back for more in No. 9 Trees. We broke trail across the flats to ski the trees in more untracked above Challenger Gully, and did it again, finding more untracked in Baby Bear trees.
In short, we pounded hard as light snow continued to fall all morning. Temps were cold, ~1F at the top, so the new snow stayed light and dry. By the time we finally stopped for lunch at Alf's I was whooped, ready to take a nap right on the table. I therefore hit the road by 2:00, heading down canyon as sunshine began to break through. Bumped into Tirolerpeter briefly as I was walking out of Alf's.
No pix, no video ... we were rocking too hard to stop today.
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